Comment:

To characterize the effects of the 2008 wildfires on land cover, classifications of land cover and burn severity derived from remotely sensed data were explored. A land cover dataset for each year from 2005 to 2012 was developed in order to capture the effects of the 2008 fires; the overall classification accuracy ranged from 75 to 90 percent for the eight years of land cover maps produced (Morrison and Kolden, 2014). Land cover was classified into forest, shrub, or grass. These three classes are the dominant vegetation types across the study accounting for 97 percent of all land cover. Land cover changes for each class were quantified by plotting the change in percent cover over time of both burned and unburned areas.