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  <fuelbed_number>353</fuelbed_number>
  <fuelbed_name>Semi-desert grassland and steppe</fuelbed_name>
  <fuelbed_description>Chihuahuan semi-desert dominated by grasses with a sparse shrub layer of Prosopis glandulosa or other shrub species.</fuelbed_description>
  <ecoregion>310,320,330,340</ecoregion>
  <vegetation_form>3</vegetation_form>
  <structural_class>5</structural_class>
  <cover_type>244,260</cover_type>
  <change_agent>18</change_agent>
  <natural_fire_regime>2</natural_fire_regime>
  <condition_class>3</condition_class>
  <user_name/>
  <address/>
  <affiliation/>
  <phone/>
  <file_owner_email/>
  <notes>Used 232 as base. Altered fuelbed based on NatureServe description and BpS 11220 description and Class B (75% of land area) and BpS 11330 description and Class B (60% of land area).</notes>
  <site_photo/>
  <date_collected>2003-09-17</date_collected>
  <fuelbed_confidence>3</fuelbed_confidence>
  <fuelbed>
    <canopy>
      <trees>
        <total_percent_cover unit="number" min="5" max="50" reference_id="7038"/>
        <overstory>
          <percent_cover unit="number" min="5" max="50"/>
          <height unit="feet" min="7" max="30" reference_id="5066"/>
          <height_to_live_crown unit="feet" min="0" max="2" reference_id="7038"/>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre" min="5" max="200" reference_id="5066"/>
          <diameter_at_breast_height unit="inches" min="6" max="18" reference_id="5066"/>
          <species/>
        </overstory>
        <midstory>
          <percent_cover unit="number"/>
          <height unit="feet"/>
          <height_to_live_crown unit="feet"/>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre"/>
          <diameter_at_breast_height unit="inches"/>
          <species/>
        </midstory>
        <understory>
          <percent_cover unit="number"/>
          <height unit="feet"/>
          <height_to_live_crown unit="feet"/>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre"/>
          <diameter_at_breast_height unit="inches"/>
          <species/>
        </understory>
      </trees>
      <snags>
        <class_1_conifers_with_foliage>
          <percent_cover unit="number"/>
          <height_to_crown_base unit="feet"/>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre"/>
          <diameter unit="inches"/>
          <height unit="feet"/>
          <species/>
        </class_1_conifers_with_foliage>
        <class_1_all_others>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre"/>
          <diameter unit="inches"/>
          <height unit="feet"/>
          <species/>
        </class_1_all_others>
        <class_2>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre"/>
          <diameter unit="inches"/>
          <height unit="feet"/>
          <species/>
        </class_2>
        <class_3>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre"/>
          <diameter unit="inches"/>
          <height unit="feet"/>
          <species/>
        </class_3>
      </snags>
      <ladder_fuels>
        <minimum_height unit="feet"/>
        <maximum_height unit="feet"/>
        <is_vertically_contiguous/>
        <type/>
      </ladder_fuels>
    </canopy>
    <shrubs>
      <primary_layer>
        <percent_cover unit="number" min="10" max="70">15</percent_cover>
        <height unit="feet" min="4" max="15" reference_id="5083">3</height>
        <percent_live unit="number" min="85" max="100" reference_id="7000">95</percent_live>
        <species>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>26879</tsn>
            <relative_cover>80</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>20505</tsn>
            <relative_cover>10</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>502319</tsn>
            <relative_cover>10</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
        </species>
      </primary_layer>
      <secondary_layer>
        <percent_cover unit="number"/>
        <height unit="feet"/>
        <percent_live unit="number"/>
        <species/>
      </secondary_layer>
      <needle_drape>
        <is_sufficient_to_affect_fire_behavior>0</is_sufficient_to_affect_fire_behavior>
      </needle_drape>
    </shrubs>
    <herbaceous>
      <primary_layer>
        <percent_cover unit="number" min="2" max="60">65</percent_cover>
        <height unit="feet" min="1" max="3" reference_id="5083">1.5</height>
        <percent_live unit="number" min="50" max="100" reference_id="7000">80</percent_live>
        <loading unit="tons_per_acre" min="0" max="2.5" reference_id="7067">0.5</loading>
        <species>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>41501</tsn>
            <relative_cover>50</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>42128</tsn>
            <relative_cover>20</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>42132</tsn>
            <relative_cover>15</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>41491</tsn>
            <relative_cover>15</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
        </species>
      </primary_layer>
      <secondary_layer>
        <percent_cover unit="number"/>
        <height unit="feet"/>
        <percent_live unit="number"/>
        <loading unit="tons_per_acre"/>
        <species/>
      </secondary_layer>
    </herbaceous>
    <woody_fuel>
      <all_downed_woody_fuel>
        <total_percent_cover unit="number"/>
        <depth unit="inches"/>
      </all_downed_woody_fuel>
      <sound_wood>
        <loadings_zero_to_three_inches>
          <zero_to_quarter_inch unit="tons_per_acre"/>
          <quarter_inch_to_one_inch unit="tons_per_acre"/>
          <one_to_three_inches unit="tons_per_acre"/>
        </loadings_zero_to_three_inches>
        <loadings_greater_than_three_inches>
          <three_to_nine_inches unit="tons_per_acre"/>
          <nine_to_twenty_inches unit="tons_per_acre"/>
          <greater_than_twenty_inches unit="tons_per_acre"/>
        </loadings_greater_than_three_inches>
        <all_sound_wood>
          <species/>
        </all_sound_wood>
      </sound_wood>
      <rotten_wood>
        <loadings_greater_than_three_inches>
          <three_to_nine_inches unit="tons_per_acre"/>
          <nine_to_twenty_inches unit="tons_per_acre"/>
          <greater_than_twenty_inches unit="tons_per_acre"/>
        </loadings_greater_than_three_inches>
        <all_rotten_wood>
          <species/>
        </all_rotten_wood>
      </rotten_wood>
      <stumps>
        <sound>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre"/>
          <diameter unit="inches"/>
          <height unit="feet"/>
          <species/>
        </sound>
        <rotten>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre"/>
          <diameter unit="inches"/>
          <height unit="feet"/>
          <species/>
        </rotten>
        <lightered_pitchy>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre"/>
          <diameter unit="inches"/>
          <height unit="feet"/>
          <species/>
        </lightered_pitchy>
      </stumps>
    </woody_fuel>
    <moss_lichen_litter>
      <moss>
        <percent_cover unit="number"/>
        <depth unit="inches"/>
        <type/>
      </moss>
      <ground_lichen>
        <percent_cover unit="number"/>
        <depth unit="inches"/>
      </ground_lichen>
      <litter>
        <percent_cover unit="number" min="5" max="60" reference_id="7068">50</percent_cover>
        <depth unit="inches" min="0.2" max="1" reference_id="7000">0.05</depth>
        <arrangement>1</arrangement>
        <litter_type>
          <short_needle_pine>
            <relative_cover>0</relative_cover>
          </short_needle_pine>
          <long_needle_pine>
            <relative_cover>0</relative_cover>
          </long_needle_pine>
          <other_conifer>
            <relative_cover>0</relative_cover>
          </other_conifer>
          <broadleaf_deciduous>
            <relative_cover>15</relative_cover>
          </broadleaf_deciduous>
          <broadleaf_evergreen>
            <relative_cover>0</relative_cover>
          </broadleaf_evergreen>
          <palm_frond>
            <relative_cover>0</relative_cover>
          </palm_frond>
          <grass>
            <relative_cover>85</relative_cover>
          </grass>
        </litter_type>
      </litter>
    </moss_lichen_litter>
    <ground_fuel>
      <duff>
        <upper>
          <percent_cover unit="number" min="0" max="10" reference_id="7000"/>
          <depth unit="inches" min="0" max="0.5" reference_id="7000"/>
          <derivation/>
          <loading unit="tons_per_acre"/>
        </upper>
        <lower>
          <percent_cover unit="number" min="0" max="10" reference_id="7000"/>
          <depth unit="inches" min="0" max="0.5" reference_id="7000"/>
          <derivation/>
          <loading unit="tons_per_acre"/>
        </lower>
      </duff>
      <basal_accumulation>
        <radius unit="feet"/>
        <depth unit="inches"/>
        <number_per_unit_area unit="number_per_acre"/>
        <type/>
      </basal_accumulation>
      <squirrel_middens>
        <depth unit="inches"/>
        <number_per_unit_area unit="number_per_acre"/>
        <radius unit="feet"/>
      </squirrel_middens>
    </ground_fuel>
  </fuelbed>
</FCCS_file>
