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  <fuelbed_number>416</fuelbed_number>
  <fuelbed_name>Chinkapin oak-eastern redcedar/bluestem savanna</fuelbed_name>
  <fuelbed_description>This calcareous glade and woodland vegetation occurs in the central Appalachians, central Alabama, and the Interior Highlands of the Ozark, Ouachita, and Interior Low Plateau regions. The vegetation is typically dominated by mixed grasses and forb under an open canopy of eastern redcedar and chinkapin oak. An open shrub layer is also frequently present. </fuelbed_description>
  <ecoregion>220,230,250</ecoregion>
  <vegetation_form>5</vegetation_form>
  <structural_class>4</structural_class>
  <cover_type>64,275</cover_type>
  <change_agent>18</change_agent>
  <natural_fire_regime>2</natural_fire_regime>
  <condition_class>1</condition_class>
  <user_name/>
  <address/>
  <affiliation/>
  <phone/>
  <file_owner_email/>
  <notes>Base fuelbed LF_415 for EVTs 2400, 2401 and 2408. Altered canopy, shrub and nonwoody structure and composition based on  EVT description and NatureServe association descriptions.  Also updated litter, duff and woody fuels.</notes>
  <date_collected>Sep 19, 2011</date_collected>
  <fuelbed_confidence/>
  <fuelbed>
    <canopy>
      <trees>
        <total_percent_cover unit="number" min="0" max="50">20</total_percent_cover>
        <overstory>
          <percent_cover unit="number" min="0" max="25">15</percent_cover>
          <height unit="feet" min="0" max="50">30</height>
          <height_to_live_crown unit="feet" min="0" max="25">15</height_to_live_crown>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre" min="0" max="35">20</stem_density>
          <diameter_at_breast_height unit="inches" min="2" max="10">5</diameter_at_breast_height>
          <species>
            <species_description>
              <tsn>504714</tsn>
              <relative_cover>100</relative_cover>
            </species_description>
          </species>
        </overstory>
        <midstory>
          <percent_cover unit="number" min="0" max="25">10</percent_cover>
          <height unit="feet" min="0" max="35">15</height>
          <height_to_live_crown unit="feet" min="0" max="20">12</height_to_live_crown>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre" min="0" max="50">25</stem_density>
          <diameter_at_breast_height unit="inches" min="1" max="5">2.5</diameter_at_breast_height>
          <species>
            <species_description>
              <tsn>28731</tsn>
              <relative_cover>15</relative_cover>
            </species_description>
            <species_description>
              <tsn>27806</tsn>
              <relative_cover>15</relative_cover>
            </species_description>
            <species_description>
              <tsn>18048</tsn>
              <relative_cover>35</relative_cover>
            </species_description>
            <species_description>
              <tsn>32931</tsn>
              <relative_cover>35</relative_cover>
            </species_description>
          </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="0" max="65">30</percent_cover>
        <height unit="feet" min="0.5" max="8">3</height>
        <percent_live unit="number" min="50" max="100">90</percent_live>
        <species>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>23571</tsn>
            <relative_cover>60</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>18048</tsn>
            <relative_cover>40</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="50" max="100">30</percent_cover>
        <height unit="feet" min="1" max="5">2</height>
        <loading unit="tons_per_acre" min="0" max="2.5">0.3</loading>
        <percent_live unit="number" min="40" max="100">85</percent_live>
        <species>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>530264</tsn>
            <relative_cover>30.00</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>40450</tsn>
            <relative_cover>30.00</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>41491</tsn>
            <relative_cover>30</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>39749</tsn>
            <relative_cover>10</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
        </species>
      </primary_layer>
      <secondary_layer>
        <percent_cover unit="number" min="2" max="25">8</percent_cover>
        <height unit="feet" min="0.3" max="2">1</height>
        <loading unit="tons_per_acre" min="0" max="1">0.01</loading>
        <percent_live unit="number" min="30" max="100">70</percent_live>
        <species>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>30240</tsn>
            <relative_cover>40</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>36875</tsn>
            <relative_cover>40</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>35510</tsn>
            <relative_cover>20</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
        </species>
      </secondary_layer>
    </herbaceous>
    <woody_fuel>
      <all_downed_woody_fuel>
        <total_percent_cover unit="number" min="0" max="40">10</total_percent_cover>
        <depth unit="inches" min="0" max="1">0.5</depth>
      </all_downed_woody_fuel>
      <sound_wood>
        <all_sound_wood>
          <species>
            <species_description>
              <tsn>504714</tsn>
              <relative_cover>100</relative_cover>
            </species_description>
          </species>
        </all_sound_wood>
        <loadings_zero_to_three_inches>
          <zero_to_quarter_inch unit="tons_per_acre" min="0" max="1">0.1</zero_to_quarter_inch>
          <quarter_inch_to_one_inch unit="tons_per_acre" min="0" max="1">0.1</quarter_inch_to_one_inch>
          <one_to_three_inches unit="tons_per_acre" min="0" max="1">0.1</one_to_three_inches>
        </loadings_zero_to_three_inches>
        <loadings_greater_than_three_inches>
          <three_to_nine_inches unit="tons_per_acre" min="0" max="1">0.1</three_to_nine_inches>
          <nine_to_twenty_inches unit="tons_per_acre" min="0" max="0">0</nine_to_twenty_inches>
          <greater_than_twenty_inches unit="tons_per_acre" min="0" max="0">0</greater_than_twenty_inches>
        </loadings_greater_than_three_inches>
      </sound_wood>
      <rotten_wood>
        <all_rotten_wood>
          <species/>
        </all_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>
      </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>
        <type/>
        <percent_cover unit="number"/>
        <depth unit="inches"/>
      </moss>
      <ground_lichen>
        <percent_cover unit="number" min="0" max="25">5</percent_cover>
        <depth unit="inches" min="0" max="1.5">0.5</depth>
      </ground_lichen>
      <litter>
        <percent_cover unit="number" min="0" max="60">40</percent_cover>
        <depth unit="inches" min="0" max="2">0.5</depth>
        <arrangement>1</arrangement>
        <litter_type>
          <short_needle_pine>
            <relative_cover/>
          </short_needle_pine>
          <long_needle_pine>
            <relative_cover/>
          </long_needle_pine>
          <other_conifer>
            <relative_cover>10.0</relative_cover>
          </other_conifer>
          <broadleaf_deciduous>
            <relative_cover>80.0</relative_cover>
          </broadleaf_deciduous>
          <broadleaf_evergreen>
            <relative_cover/>
          </broadleaf_evergreen>
          <palm_frond>
            <relative_cover/>
          </palm_frond>
          <grass>
            <relative_cover>10.0</relative_cover>
          </grass>
        </litter_type>
      </litter>
    </moss_lichen_litter>
    <ground_fuel>
      <duff>
        <upper>
          <depth unit="inches" min="0" max="3">0.4</depth>
          <percent_cover unit="number" min="0" max="100">50</percent_cover>
          <derivation>1</derivation>
        </upper>
        <lower>
          <depth unit="inches" min="0" max="3"/>
          <percent_cover unit="number" min="0" max="100"/>
          <derivation/>
          <loading unit="tons_per_acre"/>
        </lower>
      </duff>
      <squirrel_middens>
        <depth unit="inches"/>
        <radius unit="feet"/>
        <number_per_unit_area unit="number_per_acre"/>
      </squirrel_middens>
      <basal_accumulation>
        <depth unit="inches"/>
        <radius unit="feet"/>
        <number_per_unit_area unit="number_per_acre"/>
        <type/>
      </basal_accumulation>
    </ground_fuel>
  </fuelbed>
</FCCS_file>
