Central Sierra Nevada (Blodgett, CA)
- 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.
- Photographs
- People
- Study Descriptions Papers
- General Papers
- Economics Papers
- Entomology Papers
- Fuels Papers
- Pathology Papers
- Sociology Papers
- Soils Papers
- Vegetation Papers
- Wildlife Papers
- Resource Manager Papers
Primary Contacts
| PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR: Scott Stephens, University of California, Berkeley stephens@nature.berkeley.edu 510-642-7304 |
SITE MANAGER: Jason Moghaddas, University of California, Berkeley moghad@nature.berkeley.edu 510-643-4773 |
Site Data Manager
| Jason Moghaddas, University of California, Berkeley moghad@nature.berkeley.edu 510-643-4773 |
Site Discipline Leaders
| Economics Bruce Hartsough, University of California, Davis brhartsough@ucdavis.edu 530-752-8331 |
Entomology Donald Dahlston, University of California, Berkeley donaldd@nature.berkeley.edu 510-643-5325 Dan Stark, University of California, Berkeley Kyle Apigian, University of California, Berkeley Andrew Storer, Michigan Technological University David Wood, University of California, Berkeley bigwood@nature.berkeley.edu 510-642-5538 |
Fuels Scott Stephens, University of California, Berkeley stephens@nature.berkeley.edu 510-642-7304 Jason Moghaddas, University of California, Berkeley moghad@nature.berkeley.edu 510-643-4773 |
| Pathology Donald Dahlston, University of California, Berkeley donaldd@nature.berkeley.edu 510-643-5325 |
Soils Thomas Bruns, University of California, Berkeley boletus@socrates.berkeley.edu 510-642-7987 Antonio Izzo, University of California, Berkeley Emily Moghaddas, University of California, Berkeley |
Vegetation Jason Moghaddas, University of California, Berkeley moghad@nature.berkeley.edu 510-643-4773 Scott Stephens, University of California, Berkeley stephens@nature.berkeley.edu 510-642-7304 |
| Wildlife Reginald Barrett, University of California, Berkeley rbarrett@nature.berkeley.edu 510-642-7261 Andy Amacher, University of California, Berkeley |
| Person | Year | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Edminster, Weatherspoon, Neary | 2000 | The Fire and Fire Surrogates Study: providing guidelines for fire in future forest watershed management decisions |
| McIver, Erickson, Youngblood | 2012 | Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Chalmers, Hartsough | 2001 | Thinning and prescribed fire as methods to reduce fuel loading - a cost analysis |
| 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 |
| McIver, Erickson, Youngblood | 2012 | Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study |
| Person | Year | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2005 | Biodiversity of Coleoptera and the importance of habitat structural features in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest |
| Apigian, Dahlsten, Stephens | 2006 | Fire and fire surrogate treatment effects on leaf litter arthropods in a western Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Collins, Moghaddas, Stephens | 2007 | Initial changes in forest structure and understory plant communities following fuel reduction activities in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest |
| Kobziar, Moghaddas, Stephens | 2006 | Tree mortality patterns following prescribed fires in a mixed conifer forest |
| McIver, Erickson, Youngblood | 2012 | Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study |
| Moghaddas, York, Stephens | 2008 | Initial response of conifer and California black oak seedlings following fuel reduction activities in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest |
| 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 |
| Person | Year | Title |
|---|---|---|
| McIver, Erickson, Youngblood | 2012 | Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study |