
Blue Mountains (Hungry Bob, OR)
- 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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- Soils Papers
- Vegetation Papers
- Wildlife Papers
- Resource Manager Papers

See the Hungry Bob Unit 11 (thin / burn) underburn in progress with this animated image.
Site Manager
Andy Youngblood USFS, PNW Research Station |
Site Data Manager
Kent Coe USFS, PNW Research Station |
Site Discipline Leaders
Economics Jamie Barbour USFS, PNW Research Station |
Entomology Andy Youngblood USFS, PNW Research Station |
Fuels Roger Ottmar USFS, PNW Research Station |
Pathology Andy Youngblood USFS, PNW Research Station |
Soils James McIver Oregon State University, Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center |
Vegetation Andy Youngblood USFS, PNW Research Station |
Wildlife Kerry Farris and Steve Zack Wildlife Conservation Society |
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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 |
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McIver, Erickson, Youngblood | 2012 | Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study |
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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 |
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McIver, Erickson, Youngblood | 2012 | Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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McIver, Erickson, Youngblood | 2012 | Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study |