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Forest Service Teams Begin Post-Fire Assessment of Boise National Forest Wildfires Three Forest Service Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) teams have been established by the Boise national forest (NF) to begin post-fire burned area assessments of the 1) Lava-Boulder-Wolf Creek, 2) Goat-Snag-Dollar, and 3) Nellie-Bulldog-Flat fires that recently burned on National Forest System (NFS), state, and private lands. Forest Service BAER team assessments typically take approximately two weeks to complete.

BAER INFORMATION BRIEF: Preparing for Rain After Idaho Wildfires POST-FIRE WATERSHED CONDITIONS—KEY MESSAGES While many wildfires cause minimal damage to the land and pose few threats to the land or people downstream, some fires cause damage that requires special efforts to prevent problems afterwards. Summer thunderstorms and winter rain events in Idaho mountain areas can result in high water runoff and flooding. 

BAER INFORMATION BRIEF: Understanding Soil Burn SeverityWe tend to think of wildfire burn severity in terms of the visual impacts to above-ground vegetation, but the post-fire landscape response (erosion, flooding, and mass movement) is generally more strongly correlated to soil burn severity. When characterizing soil burn severity, looking at the vegetation is a good starting place to understand the conditions on the ground. 

BAER INFORMATION BRIEF: Fire Severity and Fire Intensity Effects

BAER INFORMATION BRIEF: Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) LimitationsWhile many wildfires cause minimal damage to the land and pose few threats to the land or people downstream, some fires result in damage that requires special efforts to reduce impacts afterwards. Loss of vegetation exposes soil to erosion; water run-off may increase and cause flooding, soil and rock may move downstream and damage property or fill reservoirs putting community water supplies and endangered species at-risk.

BAER INFORMATION BRIEF: Key Elements of A BAER Assessment

BAER INFORMATION BRIEF: Forest Service BAER Program Overview

BAER INFORMATION BRIEF: Three Phases of Wildfire RecoveryTHREE PHASES OF WILDFIRE RECOVERY There are three phases of recovery following wildfires on federal lands:- Fire Suppression Repair- Emergency Stabilization-Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER)- Long-Term Recovery and Restoration