Page 2 - anf_calan2464_2009.html

Figure 1. CA-LAN-2464 vicinity map.

tracks. It was estimated at that time that, due to the widespread scattering of deposits, the site only
possessed perhaps 10 to 50 percent integrity (Kozach and Milburn 1996).
The site is located in a road loop that had been decommissioned by the Forest, and reopened for
the incident (Figure 2). In past fires, that ridge terminus was utilized as the anchor point for suppression
lines constructed by heavy equipment along the ridgeline system. The existing mechanized fireline was a
product of several separate wildfire events; the landscape is often a determinant of fireline locations, and
the same contingent lines are repeatedly opened as part of the emergency responses, based upon known
and predicted fire behavior in the vicinity. The site's location on a narrow saddle makes it nearly

SCA Proceedings, Volume 22 (2009) Vance, p. 2