Southern Cascades (Goosenest, CA)
- Klamath National Forest, Goosenest Adaptive Management Area
- Mixed-conifer forest: Ponderosa pine, and white fir.
- Fire return interval: 10-15 years
- Represents several hundred thousand hectares in California
The southern Cascades site is located in northern California to the northeast of Mt. Shasta. The study area was essentially clearcut in the early 1900s by railroad logging. The forest we work with today is the forest that has regrown since that early logging.
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- 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 Manager
| Carl Skinner, USDA, FS, PSW Research Station cskinner@fs.fed.us 530-242-2463 |
Site Data Manager
| Rose Leonard, USDA, FS, PSW Research Station rleonard@fs.fed.us 530-226-2539 |
Site Discipline Leaders
| Economics Jamie Barbour, USDA, FS, PNW Research Station jbarbour01@fs.fed.us 503-808-2074 |
Entomology Chris Fettig, USDA, FS, PSW Research Station cfettig@fs.fed.us 530-758-5151 |
Fuels Carl Skinner, USDA, FS, PSW Research Station cskinner@fs.fed.us 530-242-2463 |
| Pathology Bill Otrosina, USDA, FS, Southern Research Station wotrosina@fs.fed.us 706-559-4279 |
Soils Ralph Boerner, Ohio State University boerner.1@osu.edu 614-292-8280 |
Vegetation Carl Skinner, USDA, FS, PSW Research Station cskinner@fs.fed.us 530-242-2463 |
| Wildlife Steve Zack, Ph.D., Wildlife Conservation Society szack@wcs.org 503-241-3743 Kerry Farris, Wildlife Conservation Society kfarris@wcs.org 520-881-9986 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fettig, Borys, Dabney | 2010 | Effects of fire and fire surrogate treatments on bark beetle-caused tree mortality in the southern Cascades, California |
| McIver, Erickson, Youngblood | 2012 | Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study |
| Person | Year | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Kopper | 2002 | Meta-analysis design and interpretation: a case study of prescribed fire effects on fuel loadings in ponderosa pine ecosystems |
| McIver, Erickson, Youngblood | 2012 | Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study |
| Schmidt, Taylor, Skinner | 2008 | The influence of fuels treatment and landscape arrangement on simulated fire behavior, southern Cascade range, California |
| 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 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| McIver, Erickson, Youngblood | 2012 | Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study |
| Miesel, Boerner, Skinner | 2009 | Mechanical restoration of California mixed-conifer forests: does it matter which trees are cut? |
| 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 |
| Farris, Zack, Amacher, Pierson | 2010 | Microhabitat selection of bark-foraging birds in response to fire and fire surrogate treatments |
| Kennedy, Fontaine | 2009 | Synthesis of knowledge on the effects of fire and fire surrogates on wildlife in U.S. dry forests |
| 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 |