BAER Team Informational Paper

The Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) Program is a service of the United States Forest Service. A BAER team has been dispatched to conduct an assessment of the Missionary Ridge and Fire and is now complete. Their recommendations will be utilized in the rehab and recovery efforts to be conducted on both private and public lands.

The informational paper below is designed to explain the impacts of the fire on vegetation, wildlife, and watersheds & soils and how the BAER Team works.

The BAER Team Informational Paper is provided in Adobe PDF format. You must have the free Acrobat Reader in order to open this file. Since the summary contains a number of images and maps its size is nearly 3 MB. Once you click on the link below it will take about 3-5 minutes for the file to download over a 56K modem. When download is complete (or sometimes in the process of downloading) the report should open automatically in you browser window or in the stand-alone Acrobat Reader. If you don't have the Acrobat reader you can obtain it by clicking on the icon below.

BAER Team Informational Paper (3 MB PDF) Get Acrobat Reader

Maps

These maps, created by the BAER team, show different levels of burn intensity and the areas that are most at risk for flooding and debris flows.

Areas at Risk
Burn Intensity Map