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  <fuelbed_number>439</fuelbed_number>
  <fuelbed_name>Pondcypress/swamp titi/maidencane savanna</fuelbed_name>
  <fuelbed_description>Carolina bay savannas are elliptical wetlands occurring primarily in the Atlantic Coastal Plain of North and South Carolina and Georgia. The bays have highly variable species composition and structure. This fuelbed represents a grassland with an open canopy of pondcypress and scattered shrubs (the shrubs may also occur in an ecotonal zone around the grassland). </fuelbed_description>
  <ecoregion>230,410</ecoregion>
  <vegetation_form>5</vegetation_form>
  <structural_class/>
  <cover_type>101</cover_type>
  <change_agent>8</change_agent>
  <natural_fire_regime>1</natural_fire_regime>
  <condition_class>1</condition_class>
  <user_name/>
  <address/>
  <affiliation/>
  <phone/>
  <file_owner_email/>
  <notes>Created from FCCS 165 for EVT 2459. Altered canopy, shrub, nonwoody structure and composition based on EVT description and NatureServe Explorer association description. Also updated woody, litter, and duff layers. This fuelbed doesn't capture the range of variability in Carolina Bays. Pocosin fuelbeds may be a better fit in some cases.  </notes>
  <date_collected>Sep 20, 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="50">20</percent_cover>
          <height unit="feet" min="30" max="65">50</height>
          <height_to_live_crown unit="feet" min="15" max="50">30</height_to_live_crown>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre" min="0" max="100">40</stem_density>
          <diameter_at_breast_height unit="inches" min="3" max="13">8</diameter_at_breast_height>
          <species>
            <species_description>
              <tsn>541138</tsn>
              <relative_cover>100</relative_cover>
            </species_description>
          </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="0" max="25">15</percent_cover>
        <height unit="feet" min="4" max="25">6</height>
        <percent_live unit="number" min="40" max="100" reference_id="5000">80</percent_live>
        <species>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>507899</tsn>
            <relative_cover>20</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>23449</tsn>
            <relative_cover>20</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>27980</tsn>
            <relative_cover>25</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>23573</tsn>
            <relative_cover>20</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>23663</tsn>
            <relative_cover>15</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="85" max="100">95</percent_cover>
        <height unit="feet" min="0.5" max="3">2</height>
        <loading unit="tons_per_acre" min="0" max="4">1</loading>
        <percent_live unit="number" min="0" max="90" reference_id="5000">80</percent_live>
        <species>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>40909</tsn>
            <relative_cover>40.00</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>40961</tsn>
            <relative_cover>20</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>40171</tsn>
            <relative_cover>20</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>798373</tsn>
            <relative_cover>10.00</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>534427</tsn>
            <relative_cover>10</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
        </species>
      </primary_layer>
      <secondary_layer>
        <percent_cover unit="number" min="40" max="80">20</percent_cover>
        <height unit="feet" min="0.5" max="2" reference_id="5000">1.5</height>
        <loading unit="tons_per_acre" min="0" max="1">0.05</loading>
        <percent_live unit="number" min="0" max="90" reference_id="5000">80</percent_live>
        <species>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>21992</tsn>
            <relative_cover>40.00</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>27689</tsn>
            <relative_cover>30.00</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>39195</tsn>
            <relative_cover>30.00</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
        </species>
      </secondary_layer>
    </herbaceous>
    <woody_fuel>
      <all_downed_woody_fuel>
        <total_percent_cover unit="number" min="5" max="35">15</total_percent_cover>
        <depth unit="inches" min="0.1" max="1">0.5</depth>
      </all_downed_woody_fuel>
      <sound_wood>
        <all_sound_wood>
          <species>
            <species_description>
              <tsn>541138</tsn>
              <relative_cover>100.00</relative_cover>
            </species_description>
          </species>
        </all_sound_wood>
        <loadings_zero_to_three_inches>
          <zero_to_quarter_inch unit="tons_per_acre" min="0" max="0.5">0.1</zero_to_quarter_inch>
          <quarter_inch_to_one_inch unit="tons_per_acre" min="0" max="1">0.16</quarter_inch_to_one_inch>
          <one_to_three_inches unit="tons_per_acre" min="0" max="0.5">0.14</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="0.5">0.2</three_to_nine_inches>
          <nine_to_twenty_inches unit="tons_per_acre" min="0" max="0.5">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"/>
        <depth unit="inches"/>
      </ground_lichen>
      <litter>
        <percent_cover unit="number" min="80" max="100" reference_id="5000">90</percent_cover>
        <depth unit="inches" min="0.2" max="1.5" reference_id="5000">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>5.0</relative_cover>
          </other_conifer>
          <broadleaf_deciduous>
            <relative_cover/>
          </broadleaf_deciduous>
          <broadleaf_evergreen>
            <relative_cover>5.0</relative_cover>
          </broadleaf_evergreen>
          <palm_frond>
            <relative_cover/>
          </palm_frond>
          <grass>
            <relative_cover>90.0</relative_cover>
          </grass>
        </litter_type>
      </litter>
    </moss_lichen_litter>
    <ground_fuel>
      <duff>
        <upper>
          <depth unit="inches" min="0" max="1" reference_id="5000">8</depth>
          <percent_cover unit="number" min="0" max="100" reference_id="5000">20</percent_cover>
          <derivation>2</derivation>
        </upper>
        <lower>
          <depth unit="inches" min="0" max="1" reference_id="5000">2</depth>
          <percent_cover unit="number" min="0" max="100" reference_id="5000">20</percent_cover>
          <derivation>4</derivation>
        </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>
