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  • University of Montana
  • Mixed-conifer forest: Ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir
  • Fire return interval: 5-30 years
  • Represents several million hectares in the northern Rocky Mountains

Forests dominated by ponderosa pine, and ponderosa pine/Douglas-fir and managed by the Montana Forest and Conservation Experiment Station of the University of Montana. Visit the Lubrecht Forest research web site.

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Publications

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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
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
Converse, White, Farris, Zack 2006 Small mammals and forest fuel reduction: national-scale responses to fire and fire surrogates
Dodson, Metlen, Fiedler 2007 Common and uncommon understory species differentially respond to restoration treatments in ponderosa pine/Douglas-fir forests in Montana
Dodson 2004 Monitoring change in exotic plant abundance after fuel reduction/restoration treatments in ponderosa pine forests of western Montana
Dodson, Fiedler 2006 Impacts of restoration treatments on alien plant invasion in Pinus ponderosa forests, Montana, USA
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
Fiedler, Metlen, Dodson 2010 Restoration treatment effects on stand structure, tree growth, and fire hazard in a ponderosa pine/Douglas-fir forest in Montana
Gundale, DeLuca, Fiedler, Ramsey, Harrington, Gannon 2005 Restoration treatments in a Montana ponderosa pine forest: effects on soil physical, chemical and biological properties
Gundale, Metlen, Fiedler, DeLuca 2006 Nitrogen spatial heterogeneity influences diversity following restoration in a ponderosa pine forest, Montana
Gundale, DeLuca 2007 Charcoal effects on soil solution chemistry and growth of Koeleria macrantha in the ponderosa pine/Douglas-fir ecosystem
Gundale 2005 Nitrogen cycling and spatial heterogeneity following fire and restoration treatments in the ponderosa pine/douglas-fir ecosystem
Gundale, DeLuca 2006 Temperature and source material influence ecological attributes of ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir charcoal
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
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, 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
Metlen, Fiedler 2006 Restoration treatment effects on the understory of ponderosa pine/Douglas-fir forests in western Montana, USA
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
Six, Skov 2009 Response of bark beetles and their natural enemies to fire and fire surrogate treatments in mixed-conifer forests in western Montana
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
Weatherspoon 2000 A proposed long-term national study of the consequences of fire and fire surrogate treatments
Woolf 2003 Effects of thinning and prescribed burning on birds and small mammals
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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Site Manager

Carl Fiedler
University of Montana
carl.fiedler@cfc.umt.edu

Site Data Manager

Kerry Metlen
University of Montana

Site Discipline Leaders

Economics

Chuck Keegan
University of Montana

Entomology

Diana Six
University of Montana

Fuels

Michael Harrington
USFS, Rocky Mountain Research Station

Pathology

Diana Six
University of Montana

Soils

Tom DeLuca
University of Montana

Vegetation

Carl Fiedler
University of Montana

Wildlife

Scott Mills
University of Montana