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  • 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

Publications

People Year Title
Hatten, Zabowski, Scherer, Dolan 2005 A comparison of soil properties after contemporary wildfire and fire-suppression
Weatherspoon 2000 A proposed long-term national study of the consequences of fire and fire surrogate treatments
Goetz, Dugan 2006 Alternaria malorum: a mini-review with new records for hosts and pathogenicity
McIver, Weatherspoon, Edminster 2001 Alternative ponderosa pine restoration treatments in the western United States
2009 Dry forests of the Northeastern Cascades Fire and Fire Surrogate project site, Mission Creek, Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest
Ramsey 2005 Ecology of fungal endophytes in Douglas-fir and ponderosa pine roots in eastern Washington
Hoff 2002 Fungal diversity in woody roots of east-slope Cascade ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) and Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
Hoff, Klopfenstein, McDonald, Tonn, Kim, Zambino, Hessburg, Rogers, Peever, Carris 2004 Fungal endophytes in woody roots of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa)
Goetz 2006 Fungal endophytes isolated from large roots of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa)
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
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, 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
Kopper 2002 Meta-analysis design and interpretation: a case study of prescribed fire effects on fuel loadings in ponderosa pine ecosystems
McIver, Weatherspoon 2010 On conducting a multisite, multidisciplinary forestry research project: lessons from the national fire and fire surrogate study
McIver, Erickson, Youngblood 2012 Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study
Hoff, Klopfenstein, Tonn, McDonald, Zambino, Rogers, Peever, Carris 2004 Roles of woody root-associated fungi in forest ecosystem processes: recent advances in fungal indentification
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
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
Converse, White, Farris, Zack 2006 Small mammals and forest fuel reduction: national-scale responses to fire and fire surrogates
Dolan 2002 Soil and site variability in the northeast Wenatchee mountains, Washington
Kennedy, Fontaine 2009 Synthesis of knowledge on the effects of fire and fire surrogates on wildlife in U.S. dry forests
Bartuszevige, Kennedy 2009 Synthesis of knowledge on the effects of fire and thinning treatments on understory vegetation in U.S. dry forests
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
Edminster, Weatherspoon, Neary 2000 The Fire and Fire Surrogates Study: providing guidelines for fire in future forest watershed management decisions
McIver, Boerner, Hart 2008 The national fire and fire surrogate study: ecological consequences of alternative fuel reduction methods in seasonally dry forests
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
Youngblood 2010 Thinning and burning in dry coniferous forests of the western United States: effectiveness in altering diameter distributions
Chalmers, Hartsough 2001 Thinning and prescribed fire as methods to reduce fuel loading - a cost analysis
Hessburg, Povak, Salter 2008 Thinning and prescribed fire effects on dwarf mistletoe severity in an eastern Cascade Range dry forest, Washington
Agee, Lolley 2006 Thinning and prescribed fire effects on fuels and potential fire behavior in an eastern Cascades Forest, Washington, 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
Hessburg, Povak, Salter 2010 Thinning and prescribed fire effects on snag abundance and spatial pattern in an eastern Cascade range dry forest, Washington, USA
Dodson, Peterson, Harrod 2008 Understory vegetation response to thinning and burning restoration treatments in dry conifer forests of the eastern Cascades, USA
Lolley 2005 Wildland fuel conditions and effects of modeled fuel treatments on wildland fire behavior and severity in dry forests of the Wenatchee Mountains
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Site Manager

James K. Agee
University of Washington
jagee@uw.edu
206-543-8242

John Lehmkuhl
USFS, PNW Research Station

Site Data Manager

John Lehmkuhl
USFS, PNW Research Station

Site Discipline Leaders

Economics

Jamie Barbour
USFS, PNW Research Station

Entomology

Paul Hessburg
USFS, PNW Research Station

Entomology

James K. Agee
University of Washington

Pathology

Paul Hessburg
USFS, PNW Research Station

Soils

Darlene Zabowski
University of Washington

Robert Edmonds
University of Washington

Vegetation

Richy Harrod
USDA Forest Service, Okanogan & Wenatchee NFs

Wildlife

John Lehmkuhl
USFS, PNW Research Station

Bill Gaines
USDA Forest Service, Okanogan & Wenatchee NFs