Blue Mountains | Study Sites | Fire and Fire Surrogates Study

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest
Mixed-conifer forest: Ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir
Fire return interval: 10-25 years
Represents 400,000 hectares in the Blue Mountains of Oregon

The Blue Mountains project is located on the Wallowa Valley District between Davis and Crow Creek drainages, 45 km north of Enterprise, Oregon. The study site is a complete randomized design of four treatments and four replications, resulting in 16 experimental units. The following suite of four FFS treatments are implemented at Hungry Bob: untreated control, prescribed fire only, initial and periodic cutting only, initial and periodic cutting followed by prescribed fire. Actual fieldwork at Hungry Bob was initiated in 1996 after a careful analysis of implementing the project at three other locations within the Blue Mountains. After three days of burning, all eight experimental units are successfully burned by late September 2000.

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Site Manager

Andy Youngblood, USDA, FS, PNW Research Station
ayoungblood@fs.fed.us
541-962-6530

Site Data Manager

Kent Coe, USDA, FS, PNW Research Station
kcoe@fs.fed.us
541-962-6552

Site Discipline Leaders

*Economics* Jamie Barbour, USDA, FS, PNW Research Station jbarbour01@fs.fed.us 503-808-2074	*Entomology* Andy Youngblood, USDA, FS, PNW Research Station ayoungblood@fs.fed.us 541-962-6530	*Fuels* Roger Ottmar, USDA, FS, PNW Research Station rottmar@fs.fed.us 206-553-7815
*Pathology* Andy Youngblood, USDA, FS, PNW Research Station ayoungblood@fs.fed.us 541-962-6530	*Soils* James McIver, Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center, Oregon State University james.mciver@oregonstate.edu 541-562-5396	*Vegetation* Andy Youngblood, USDA, FS, PNW Research Station ayoungblood@fs.fed.us 541-962-6530
*Wildlife* Kerry Farris, Wildlife Conservation Society kfarris@wcs.org 520-881-9986 Steve Zack, Ph.D., Wildlife Conservation Society szack@wcs.org 503-241-3743

Person	Year	Title
Edminster, Weatherspoon, Neary	2000	The Fire and Fire Surrogates Study: providing guidelines for fire in future forest watershed management decisions
Matzka, Kellogg	1999	Thinning with prescribed fire and timber harvesting mechanization for forest restoration: a review of past and present research
McIver, Erickson, Youngblood	2012	Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study
McIver, Youngblood, Niwa, Ottmar, Smith	2000	Hypotheses on the ecological effects of alternative fuel reduction methods
Neuenschwander, Ryan, Gollberg, McIver, Youngblood, Niwa, Smith, Ottmar, Matzka	2000	Alternative fuel reduction methods in Blue Mountain dry forests: an introduction to the Hungry Bob project
Neuenschwander, Ryan, Weatherspoon	2000	A proposed long-term national study of the consequences of fire and fire surrogate treatments
Peterson, Maguire, Youngblood, Metlen, Knapp, Outcalt, Stephens, Waldrop, Yaussy	2005	Implementation of the fire and fire surrogate study: a national research effort to evaluate the consequences of fuel reduction treatments
Vance, Edminster, Covington, Blake, McIver, Weatherspoon, Edminster	2001	Alternative ponderosa pine restoration treatments in the western United States

Person	Year	Title
Edminster, Weatherspoon, Neary	2000	The Fire and Fire Surrogates Study: providing guidelines for fire in future forest watershed management decisions
Matzka, Kellogg	1999	Thinning with prescribed fire and timber harvesting mechanization for forest restoration: a review of past and present research
McIver, Boerner, Hart	2008	The national fire and fire surrogate study: ecological consequences of alternative fuel reduction methods in seasonally dry forests
McIver, Erickson, Youngblood	2012	Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study
McIver, Weatherspoon	2010	On conducting a multisite, multidisciplinary forestry research project: lessons from the national fire and fire surrogate study
McIver, Youngblood, Niwa, Ottmar, Smith	2000	Hypotheses on the ecological effects of alternative fuel reduction methods
Neuenschwander, Ryan, Gollberg, McIver, Youngblood, Niwa, Smith, Ottmar, Matzka	2000	Alternative fuel reduction methods in Blue Mountain dry forests: an introduction to the Hungry Bob project
Neuenschwander, Ryan, Weatherspoon	2000	A proposed long-term national study of the consequences of fire and fire surrogate treatments
Schwilk, Keeley, Knapp, McIver, Bailey, Fettig, Fiedler, Harrod, Moghaddas, Outcalt, Skinner, Stephens, Waldrop, Yaussy, Youngblood	2009	The national Fire and Fire Surrogate study: effects of fuel reduction methods on forest vegetation structure and fuels
Vance, Edminster, Covington, Blake, McIver, Weatherspoon, Edminster	2001	Alternative ponderosa pine restoration treatments in the western United States
Youngblood, Bigler-Cole, Fettig, Fiedler, Knapp, Lehmkuhl, Outcalt, Skinner, Stephens, Waldrop	2007	Making fire and fire surrogate science available: a summary of regional workshops with clients

Person	Year	Title
Chalmers, Hartsough	2001	Thinning and prescribed fire as methods to reduce fuel loading - a cost analysis
Coulter	1999	Hungry Bob harvest production study: mechanical thinning for fuel reduction in the Blue Mountains of northeast Oregon
Hartsough, Abrams, Barbour, Drews, McIver, Moghaddas, Schwilk, Stephens	2008	The economics of alternative fuel reduction treatments in western United States dry forests: financial and policy implications from the National Fire and Fire Surrogate Study
Matzka	2003	Thinning with prescribed fire and timber harvesting mechanization for fuels reduction and forest restoration
Matzka, Kellogg	2000	An economic model for evaluating factors affecting biomass reduction and forest restoration
McIver, Erickson, Youngblood	2012	Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study

Person	Year	Title
McIver, Erickson, Youngblood	2012	Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study

Person	Year	Title
Kopper	2002	Meta-analysis design and interpretation: a case study of prescribed fire effects on fuel loadings in ponderosa pine ecosystems
McIver, Erickson, Youngblood	2012	Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study
Stephens, Moghaddas, Edminster, Fiedler, Haase, Harrington, Keeley, Knapp, McIver, Metlen, Skinner, Youngblood	2009	Fire treatment effects on vegetation structure, fuels, and potential fire severity in western U.S. forests

Person	Year	Title
McIver, Erickson, Youngblood	2012	Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study

Person	Year	Title
McIver, Erickson, Youngblood	2012	Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study
Youngblood, Bigler-Cole, Fettig, Fiedler, Knapp, Lehmkuhl, Outcalt, Skinner, Stephens, Waldrop	2007	Making fire and fire surrogate science available: a summary of regional workshops with clients

Person	Year	Title
Boerner, Giai, Huang, Miesel	2008	Initial effects of fire and mechanical thinning on soil enzyme activity and nitrogen transformations in eight North American forest ecosystems
Boerner, Huang, Hart	2008	Impacts of fire and fire surrogate treatments on ecosystem nitrogen storage patterns: similarities and differences between forests of eastern and western North America
Boerner, Huang, Hart	2009	Impacts of Fire and Fire Surrogate treatments on forest soil properties: a meta-analytical approach
McIver, Erickson, Youngblood	2012	Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study
Smith, McKay, Brenner, McIver, Spatafora	2005	Early impacts of forest restoration treatments on the ectomycorrhizal fungal community and fine root biomass in a mixed conifer forest

Person	Year	Title
McIver, Erickson, Youngblood	2012	Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study
Metlen	2002	Undergrowth vegetation response to fuel reduction treatments in the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon
Metlen, Fiedler, Youngblood	2004	Understory response to fuel reduction treatments in the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon
Peterson, Maguire, Youngblood, Metlen, Knapp, Outcalt, Stephens, Waldrop, Yaussy	2005	Implementation of the fire and fire surrogate study: a national research effort to evaluate the consequences of fuel reduction treatments
Youngblood	2010	Thinning and burning in dry coniferous forests of the western United States: effectiveness in altering diameter distributions
Youngblood, Grace, McIver	2009	Delayed conifer mortality after fuel reduction treatments: interactive effects of fuel, fire intensity, and bark beetles
Youngblood, Metlen, Coe	2006	Changes in stand structure and composition after restoration treatments in low elevation dry forests of northeastern Oregon
Youngblood, Wright, Ottmar, McIver	2008	Changes in fuelbed characteristics and resulting fire potentials after fuel reduction treatments in dry forests of the Blue Mountains, northeastern Oregon

Person	Year	Title
Bartuszevige, Kennedy	2009	Synthesis of knowledge on the effects of fire and thinning treatments on understory vegetation in U.S. dry forests
Converse, White, Farris, Zack	2006	Small mammals and forest fuel reduction: national-scale responses to fire and fire surrogates
Farris, Zack, Amacher, Pierson	2010	Microhabitat selection of bark-foraging birds in response to fire and fire surrogate treatments
Kennedy, Fontaine	2009	Synthesis of knowledge on the effects of fire and fire surrogates on wildlife in U.S. dry forests
McIver, Erickson, Youngblood	2012	Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study
Rothenbach	2007	Response of nuthatches to restorative treatments in ponderosa pine ecosystems

Person	Year	Title
McIver, Erickson, Youngblood	2012	Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study

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