Northeastern Cascades (Mission Creek, WA)
- Wenatchee National Forest
- Mixed-conifer forest: Ponderosa pine, Douglas-fir and grand fir
- Fire return interval: 10-20 years
- Represents several hundred thousand hectares in the Wenatchee NF alone
- 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
Site Managers
| James K. Agee, University of Washington jagee@u.washington.edu 206-543-2688 |
John Lehmkuhl, USDA, FS, PNW Research Station jlehmkuhl@fs.fed.us 509-662-4315 x235 |
Site Data Manager
| John Lehmkuhl, USDA, FS, PNW Research Station jlehmkuhl@fs.fed.us 509-662-4315 x235 |
Site Discipline Leaders
| Economics Jamie Barbour, USDA, FS, PNW Research Station jbarbour01@fs.fed.us 503-808-2074 |
Entomology Paul Hessburg, USDA, FS, PNW Research Station phessburg@fs.fed.us 509-66204315 x221 |
Fuels James K. Agee, University of Washington jagee@u.washington.edu 206-543-2688 |
| Pathology Paul Hessburg, USDA, FS, PNW Research Station phessburg@fs.fed.us 509-66204315 x221 |
Soils Darlene Zabowski, University of Washington zabow@u.washington.edu Robert Edmonds, University of Washington bobe@u.washington.edu 206-685-0790 |
Vegetation Richy Harrod, USDA, FS, Okanogan & Wenatchee NFs rharrod@fs.fed.us 509-548-6977x223 |
| Wildlife John Lehmkuhl, USDA, FS, PNW Research Station jlehmkuhl@fs.fed.us 509-662-4315 x235 Bill Gaines, USDA, FS, Okanogan & Wenatchee NFs wgaines@fs.fed.us 509-662-4232 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dodson, Peterson, Harrod | 2008 | Understory vegetation response to thinning and burning restoration treatments in dry conifer forests of the eastern Cascades, USA |
| Harrod, Peterson, Povak, Dodson | 2009 | Thinning and prescribed fire effects on overstory tree and snag structure in dry coniferous forests of the interior Pacific Northwest |
| McIver, Erickson, Youngblood | 2012 | Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Gaines, Haggard, Begley, Lehmkuhl, Lyons | 2010 | Short-term effects of thinning and burning restoration treatments on avian community composition, density, and nest survival in the eastern Cascades dry forests, Washington |
| Kennedy, Fontaine | 2009 | Synthesis of knowledge on the effects of fire and fire surrogates on wildlife in U.S. dry forests |
| Lyons, Gaines, Lehmkuhl, Harrod | 2008 | Short-term effects of fire and fire surrogate treatments on foraging tree selection by cavity-nesting birds in dry forests of central Washington |
| 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 |