Section 1: LF Plots 2025

Mean fuel load: 0.7574144 tons/acre

Mean Woody coverage: 12.5%

head(X2025_Forage_Sampling)
## # A tibble: 6 × 8
##   Month  Plot Quadrant Circle `Gross Mass` `Bag Type` EcoSite Fire  
##   <chr> <dbl>    <dbl>  <dbl>        <dbl> <chr>      <chr>   <chr> 
## 1 May     901        1      1         22.6 L          sandy   Burned
## 2 May     901        1      3         29.6 L          sandy   Burned
## 3 May     901        1      4         23.8 L          sandy   Burned
## 4 May     901        1      9         26.0 L          sandy   Burned
## 5 May     901        2      4         26.5 L          sandy   Burned
## 6 May     901        2      6         31.9 L          sandy   Burned
Forage2 <- X2025_Forage_Sampling %>%
  filter(Fire == "Unburned" & Quadrant %in% c(2, 3)) %>%
  mutate(Gross_Mass_Adjusted = `Gross Mass` - 20.33,
         Ton_per_acre = Gross_Mass_Adjusted * 0.04632504)



mean(Forage2$Ton_per_acre)
## [1] 0.7574144
ggplot(Forage2, aes(x = EcoSite, y = Ton_per_acre)) +
  geom_bar(stat = "summary", fun = "mean") +
  labs(title = "Average Forage Tons per Acre",
       x = "EcoSite",
       y = "Tons per Acre") +
  theme_minimal()

Section 2: Patchburn Transects

Woody plant species listed:

ARCA – A. Cana – Silver sage

ARFR – A. Frigida – Prairie sagewort

ARTR – A. Tridentada – Big sagebrush

ATCO – Atriplex confertifolia – Shadescale saltbrush

ATGA – Atriplex gardneri – Gardeners saltbrush

JUHO – Juniperus horizontalis – Creeping juniper

RHAR – Rhus aromativca – Fragrant sumac

SAVE – Sarcobatus vermiculatus - Greasewood

## # A tibble: 8 × 3
##   species avg_coverage percent_coverage
##   <chr>          <dbl>            <dbl>
## 1 ARCA           8.71             19.4 
## 2 ARFR           5.79             12.9 
## 3 ARTR          19.6              43.5 
## 4 ATCO           0.500             1.11
## 5 ATGA           0.625             1.39
## 6 JUHO           4.40              9.79
## 7 RHAR           1.8               4.01
## 8 SAVE           3.54              7.89