Background The Cannon Incident fire burned approximately 22,750 acres total between June 16 and June 28, 2002. The fire was ignited by a campfire. Of the total acreage, approximately 4,556 acres burned at high intensity and 8,848 acres burned at moderate intensity. The fire was strongly influenced by high winds (20-30 miles per hour), dry fuel conditions, a variety of fuel types and mountainous topography. Vegetative resources were impacted due to the burn pattern and variations in burn intensity.  Key Issues
- Threat to terrestrial ecosystem integrity due to increased risks of weed invasion
- Soil erosion risks and associated increased sediment loads into endangered Lahontan Cutthroathabitat
- Loss of critical mule deer winter range
Fire Emergency Stabilization and Rehabilitation Goals  Emergency Stabilization Goals
- To prescribe cost effective post-fire stabilization measures necessary to protect human life, property, and critical cultural and natural resources
- To promptly stabilize and prevent further degradation to affected resources on lands within the fire perimeter or downstream impact areas and mitigate damages caused by fire suppression operations in accordance with approved land management plans and policies, and all relevant federal, state, and local laws and regulations
Rehabilitation Goals - To repair or improve lands unlikely to recover naturally from severe wildland fire damage by emulating historic or pre-fire ecosystem structure, function, diversity, and dynamics according to approved land management plans
- Restore or establish healthy, stable ecosystems, even if these ecosystems cannot fully emulate historic or pre-fire conditions as specified in approved land management plans
Prescribed Treatments - Drill seed 833 acres (actual - 200 acres due to USFS area calculation error) with native shrub, grass and forb species between the second and end of the third growing season following wildfire control (Table 3)
- Conduct monitoring on drill seeding treatment sites between the second and end of the third growing season following wildfire control
- Conduct weed detection/control studies on 600 acres to determine if noxious or invasive species are present or increasing in the recovering burned area or in the drill seeded sites
- Install 2 straw bale check dams in Mill Creek and 120 (30/gully) straw wattles in North Creek
| Table 1. - Native seed mixture used in drill seeding treatments |
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| Treatment Area | Seeded Species | Application Rate (pls) | Type | Percent of Mix | | Drillseed @ 8 lbs/acre | Bottlebrush squirreltail (Elymus elymoides) | 2 lb/acre | Native Perennial | 20 | | Indian ricegrass (Achnatherum hymenoides) | 2 lb/acre | Native Perennial | 20 | Needle and thread grass
(Hespirostipa comota ssp. comata)
| 1.5 lbs/acre | Native Perennial | 10 | Bitterbrush
(Purshia tridentata var. tridentata)
| 2 lb/acre | Native Perennial | 40 | Silver lupine and Blue Flax
(Lupinus argenteus), (Linum lewisii)
| 0.5 lbs/acre | Native Forb | 10 | | Totals: | 8 lbs/acre | | 100 |
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