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Table 5-Published first-year sediment losses after prescribed fires and wildfres, <br />Location Treatment SedlmentLosa Reference <br /> (f ac ') (Mg ha ') <br />Mixed Conifer, WA Wildfire 130 300 Sartz 1953 <br />Mixed Conifer, WA Control 0.01 0.03 Helvey 1980 <br /> Wildfire 1 2 <br />Mixed Conifer, WA McCay Wildfire 0.8 2 Radek 1996 <br /> Bannon Wildfire 0.6 1 <br /> Thunder Mtn. Wildfire 0.2 0.5 <br /> Whiteface Wildfire 0.2 0.3 <br />Ponderosa Pine, CA Control <0.0005 <0.001 Biswell and Schultz 1965 <br /> Prescribed Fire <0.0005 <0.001 <br />Chaparral, CA Control 0.02 0.04 Wells 1981 <br /> Wildfire 13 30 <br />Chaparral, CA Control 2 6 Krammes 1960 <br /> Wildfire 25 60 <br />Chaparral, CA Control, Steep Slope 0.0009 0.002 DeBano and Conrad 1976 <br /> Rx Fire, Steep Slope 3 7 <br /> Control, Gentle Slope 0 0 <br /> Rx Fire, Gentle Slope 1 3 <br />Chaparraf, AZ Control 0 0 Pase and Lindenmuth 1971 <br /> Prescribed Fire 2 4 <br />Chaparral, AZ Control 0.04 0.1 Pase and Ingebo 1965 <br /> Wildfire 13 29 <br />Chapanal, AZ Control 0.07 0.2 Glendening and others 1961 <br /> Wildfire 91 204 <br />Ponderosa Pine, AZ Control 0.001 0.003 Campbell and others 1977 <br /> Wildfire 0.6 1 <br />Ponderosa Pine, AZ Wildfire, Low 0.001 0.003 DeBano and others 1996 <br /> Wildfire, Moderate 0.009 0.02 <br /> Wildfire, Severe 0.7 1.6 <br />Mixed Conifer, AZ Control <0.0004 <0.001 Hendricks and Johnson 1944 <br /> Wildfire, 43% Slope 32 72 <br /> Wildfire, 66% Slope 90 200 <br /> Wildfire, 78% Slope 165 370 <br />Juniper-Grass, TX Control 0.03 0.06 Wright and others 1982 <br /> Prescribed Fire 7 15 <br /> Prescribed Fire, Seed 1 3 <br />Juniper-Grass, TX Control 0.006 0.01 Wright and others 1976 <br /> Bum, Level Slope 0.01 0.03 <br /> Bum, 20% Slope 0.8 2 <br /> Burn,54%Slope 4 8 <br />Larch/Douglas-fir, MT Control <0.0004 <0.001 Debyle and Packer 1972 <br /> Slash Bumetl 0.07 0.2 <br />Ponderosa-pine/Douglas-fir, ID Wildfire 4 6 Noble and Lundeen 1971 <br />Ponderosa-pine/Douglas-fir, ID Clearcut and Wildfire 92 120 Megahan and Molitor 1975 <br />Ponderosa-pine/Douglas-fir, OR Wildfire, 20% Slope 0.5 1.1 Robichaud and Brown 1999 <br /> Wildfire, 30%Slope 1.0 2.2 <br /> Wildfire, 60% Slope 1.1 2.5 <br />10 <br />USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-63.2000 <br />