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  • University of California
  • Mixed-conifer forest: Ponderosa pine, with sugar pine, white fir, incense cedar, Douglas-fir and California black oak
  • Fire return interval: 7-20 years
  • Represents 1.5 million hectares in Calfornia

The Central Sierra Nevada Study Site is using crews from both California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and the Department of Corrections to help implement its site treatments. The crews assist in line construction, firing, line holding, and mop-up.

Visit the Blodgett Forest Research Station Web Site for more information.

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Publications

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2008 Chainsaws or driptorches: how should fire risk be reduced?
Amacher, Barrett, Moghaddas, Stephens 2008 Preliminary effects of fire and mechanical fuel treatments on the abundance of small mammals in the mixed-conifer forest of the Sierra Nevada
Apigian 2005 Forest disturbance effects on insect and bird communities: insectivorous birds in coast live oak woodlands and leaf litter arthropods in the Sierra Nevada
Apigian, Dahlsten, Stephens 2006 Fire and fire surrogate treatment effects on leaf litter arthropods in a western Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest
Apigian, Dahlsten, Stephens 2005 Biodiversity of Coleoptera and the importance of habitat structural features in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest
Bartuszevige, Kennedy 2009 Synthesis of knowledge on the effects of fire and thinning treatments on understory vegetation in U.S. dry forests
Boerner, Huang, Hart 2009 Impacts of Fire and Fire Surrogate treatments on forest soil properties: a meta-analytical approach
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, Giai, Huang, Miesel 2008 Initial effects of fire and mechanical thinning on soil enzyme activity and nitrogen transformations in eight North American forest ecosystems
Chalmers, Hartsough 2001 Thinning and prescribed fire as methods to reduce fuel loading - a cost analysis
Collins, Moghaddas, Stephens 2007 Initial changes in forest structure and understory plant communities following fuel reduction activities in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest
Converse, White, Farris, Zack 2006 Small mammals and forest fuel reduction: national-scale responses to fire and fire surrogates
Edminster, Weatherspoon, Neary 2000 The Fire and Fire Surrogates Study: providing guidelines for fire in future forest watershed management decisions
Farris, Zack, Amacher, Pierson 2010 Microhabitat selection of bark-foraging birds in response to fire and fire surrogate treatments
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
Kennedy, Fontaine 2009 Synthesis of knowledge on the effects of fire and fire surrogates on wildlife in U.S. dry forests
Knapp, Stephens, McIver, Moghaddas, Keeley 2004 Fire and fire surrogate study in the Sierra Nevada: evaluating restoration treatments at Blodgett Forest and Sequoia National Park
Kobziar, Moghaddas, Stephens 2006 Tree mortality patterns following prescribed fires in a mixed conifer forest
Kopper 2002 Meta-analysis design and interpretation: a case study of prescribed fire effects on fuel loadings in ponderosa pine ecosystems
McCaffrey, Moghaddas, Stephens 2008 Different interest group views of fuels treatments: survey results from fire and fire surrogate treatments in a Sierran mixed conifer forest, California, USA
McIver, Weatherspoon 2010 On conducting a multisite, multidisciplinary forestry research project: lessons from the national fire and fire surrogate study
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, Edminster 2001 Alternative ponderosa pine restoration treatments in the western United States
Moghaddas, Stephens 2007 Fire performance in traditional silvicultural and fire and fire surrogate treatments in Sierran mixed-conifer forests: a brief summary
Moghaddas, York, Stephens 2008 Initial response of conifer and California black oak seedlings following fuel reduction activities in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest
Moghaddas, Stephens 2008 Mechanized fuel treatment effects on soil compaction in Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer stands
Moghaddas, Stephens 2007 Thinning, burning, and thin-burn fuel treatment effects on soil properties in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest
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
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
Stephens, Moghaddas, Hartsough, Moghaddas, Clinton 2009 Fuel treatment effects on stand-level carbon pools, treatment-related emissions, and fire risk in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest
Stephens, Moghaddas 2005 Fuel treatment effects on snags and coarse woody debris in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest
Stephens, Moghaddas 2005 Experimental fuel treatment impacts on forest structure, potential fire behavior, and predicted tree mortality in a California mixed conifer forest
Weatherspoon 2000 A proposed long-term national study of the consequences of fire and fire surrogate treatments
Yasuda 2008 Embracing 'new information': a manager's perspective
Youngblood 2010 Thinning and burning in dry coniferous forests of the western United States: effectiveness in altering diameter distributions
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
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
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Principal Investigator

Scott Stephens
University of California, Berkeley
sstephens@berkeley.edu
510-642-7304

Site Manager

Jason Moghaddas
University of California, Berkeley

Site Discipline Leaders

Economics

Bruce Hartsough
University of California, Davis

Entomology

Donald Dahlston, Dan Stark, Kyle Apigian, David Wood
University of California, Berkeley

Andrew Storer
Michigan Technological University

Fuels

Scott Stephens, Jason Moghaddas
University of California, Berkeley

Pathology

Donald Dahlston
University of California, Berkeley

Soils

Thomas Bruns, Antonio Izzo, Emily Moghaddas
University of California, Berkeley

Vegetation

Jason Moghaddas, Scott Stephens
University of California, Berkeley

Wildlife

Reginald Barrett, Andy Amacher
University of California, Berkeley