Wildfire Basics
The extent of damage to an environment after a wildfire
What is burn severity?
The tool used to measure infiltratration in soil
What is a rainfall simulator (infiltrometer)?
The collapse of this soil particle after high severity burns leads to lower cation exchange capacity in soil
What are clay particles?
The names given to the three sites I collected samples from
What are Pine, Mixed, and Burned?
The worst soil rehabilitation method
What is seeding?
The four types of wildfires
What are surface, crown, ground, and zombie fires?
A layer made from vaporized hydrocarbons condensing on soil particles
What is a hydophobic layer?
The swap of H+ ions and cations between plant roots and soil particles
What is cation exchange?
Where the soil samples for my thesis were collected
What is Pearl Hill State Park?
They are called contour because they are perpendicular to the flow of runoff, and felled logs becuase they _____
What is felled over?
Areas where trees and vegetation have been reduced or fully removed to slow the spread of a wildfire
What are fuel and fire breaks?
Moisture level where soil aggregates are more suseptable to damage by fire
What is wet soil?
Disinfection byproducts
The names of the four samples from each site
What are O unburned, A unburned, O burned, and A burned?
Soil rehabilitation methods that can be used to reduce soil erosion
What are mulching and contour-felled log erosion barriers?
The three most dangerous air pollutants in wildfire smoke
What are CO, O3, and PM2.5?
The physical property mostly unaffected by wildfires
What is bulk density?
These two chemical soil properties can either increase or decrease after a wildfire, depending on many factors in the environment or wildfire
What are soil nutrients and pH?
The tested soil property that had the best results
What is soil hydrophobicity?
The only soil rehabilitation method that had any results that it could increase vegetation cover after a wildfire
What is mulching?
The three way ariel drops used to stop the spread of a wildfire can fail
What are spotting, burn-arounds, and burn-throughs?
The creation of this element in low-severity wildfires can be beneficial to the regrowth of environments
What is pyrogenic carbon?
The longest word in my thesis
What is N-nitrosodimethylamine?
The people that probably called the police on us
Who are the people driving circles around the parking lot?
The average/range of percentage(s) of the length of a contour-felled log that was actually effective at storing sediment in the two studies I looked at
What is 42% and 33-78%?