Fig. 6

Fuel loading for the Yosemite Forest Dynamics Plot as determined by 112, 20-m Brown’s transects (2240 m total) in 2011, pre-fire and after a century of fire exclusion, in 2014, immediately post-fire, and in 2019, 6 years post-fire. Heterogeneity in fuel loading among transects is represented by the interquartile range and 95% outer confidence limits represented by the box and whiskers; the median value is the solid line bisecting the box. Brown’s transect data was used to survey all surface fuel pools; other figures display only those fuels above the 1000-h diameter threshold. CWD, coarse woody debris (≥ 7.62 cm diameter)