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  • Green River Game Management Area
  • Appalachian hardwood and pine
  • Represents several million hectares in the southern Appalachian mountains

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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, Coates, Yaussy, Waldrop 2008 Assessing ecosystem restoration alternatives in eastern deciduous forests: the view from belowground
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
Boerner, Waldrop, Skinner, Callaham, Brinkman, Smith 2004 Ecosystem restoration and wildfire management treatments affect soil organic matter and microbial activity in four contrasting forests
Campbell, Hanula, Waldrop 2007 Effects of prescribed fire and fire surrogates on floral visiting insects of the blue ridge province in North Carolina
Campbell, Hanula, Waldrop 2007 Observations of Speyeria diana (Diana Fritillary) utilizing forested areas in North Carolina that have been mechanically thinned and burned
Chalmers, Hartsough 2001 Thinning and prescribed fire as methods to reduce fuel loading - a cost analysis
Coates, Boerner, Waldrop, Yaussy 2008 Soil nitrogen transformations under alternative management strategies in Appalachian forests
Converse, White, Farris, Zack 2006 Small mammals and forest fuel reduction: national-scale responses to fire and fire surrogates
Greenberg, Forrest, Waldrop 2010 Short-term response of ground-dwelling arthropods to prescribed fire and mechanical fuel reduction in a southern Appalachian upland hardwood forest
Greenberg, Tomcho, Lanham, Waldrop, Tomcho, Phillips, Simon 2006 Short-term effects of fire and other fuel reduction treatments on breeding birds in a Southern Appalachian upland hardwood forest
Greenberg, Waldrop 2008 Short-term response of reptiles and amphibians to prescribed fire and mechanical fuel reduction in a southern Appalachian upland hardwood forest
Greenberg, Miller, Waldrop 2007 Short-term response of shrews to prescribed fire and mechanical fuel reduction in a Southern Appalachian upland hardwood forest
Greenberg, Otis, Waldrop 2006 Response of white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) to fire and fire surrogate fuel reduction treatments in a southern Appalachian hardwood forest
Kennedy, Fontaine 2009 Synthesis of knowledge on the effects of fire and fire surrogates on wildlife in U.S. dry forests
Kilpatrick, Waldrop, Lanham, Greenberg, Contreras 2010 Short-term effects of fuel reduction treatments on herpetofauna from the southeastern United States
Livings-Tomcho 2004 Effects of prescribed fire and understory removal on bird communities in a southern Appalachian forest
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
McLaughlin 2007 Effects of fuel reduction treatments on species of Phytophthora and Leptographium in forest ecosystems
Phillips, Hutchinson, Brudnak, Waldrop 2007 Fire and fire surrogate treatments in mixed-oak forests: effects on herbaceous layer vegetation
Phillips, Waldrop, Simon 2006 Assessment of the FARSITE model for predicting fire behavior in the southern Appalachian Mountains
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
Waldrop, Phillips, Simon 2010 Fuels and predicted fire behavior in the southern Appalachian Mountains after fire and fire surrogate treatments
Waldrop, Yaussy, Phillips, Hutchinson, Brudnak, Boerner 2008 Fuel reduction treatments affect stand structure of hardwood forests in western North Carolina and southern Ohio, USA
Waldrop, Mohr, Phillips, Simon 2014 The National Fire and Fire Surrogate Study: vegetation changes over 11 years of fuel reduction treatments in the southern Appalachian Mountains
Weatherspoon 2000 A proposed long-term national study of the consequences of fire and fire surrogate treatments
Yaussy, Waldrop 2009 Fire and Fire Surrogate study: annotated highlights from oak-dominated sites
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
Zwart 2004 Effects of fuel reduction treatments on the incidence of two root pathogens of forest trees
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Site Manager

Thomas A. Waldrop
USFS, Southern Research Station

Site Data Manager

Ross Phillips
USFS, Southern Research Station

Site Discipline Leaders

Economics

Bob Rummer
USFS, Southern Research Station

Entomology

Jim Hanula
USFS, Southern Research Station

Fuels

Thomas A. Waldrop
USFS, Southern Research Station

Pathology

Steve Jeffers
Clemson University

Soils

Dave Van Lear
Clemson University

Vegetation

Thomas A. Waldrop
USFS, Southern Research Station

Wildlife

Katie Greenberg
USFS, Southern Research Station