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  • Sequoia National Park (prescribed fire only).
  • Mixed-conifer forest: white fir, sugar pine, incense cedar, and red fir
  • Fire return interval: 20-40 years
  • Represents other U.S. Park Service lands in the western U.S.

The Sequoia National Park study area is located on Department of the Interior lands in Sequoia National Park, in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Publications

People Year Title
McIver, Weatherspoon 2010 On conducting a multisite, multidisciplinary forestry research project: lessons from the national fire and fire surrogate study
Farris, Zack, Amacher, Pierson 2010 Microhabitat selection of bark-foraging birds in response to fire and fire surrogate treatments
Youngblood 2010 Thinning and burning in dry coniferous forests of the western United States: effectiveness in altering diameter distributions
Monroe, Converse 2006 The effects of early season and late season prescribed fires on small mammals in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest
Hamman, Burke, Knapp 2008 Soil nutrients and microbial activity after early and late season prescribed burns in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest
Ferrenberg, Schwilk, Knapp, Groth, Keeley 2006 Fire decreases arthropod abundance but increases diversity: early and late season prescribed fire effects in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest
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, Boerner, Hart 2008 The national fire and fire surrogate study: ecological consequences of alternative fuel reduction methods in seasonally dry forests
Boerner, Huang, Hart 2009 Impacts of Fire and Fire Surrogate treatments on forest soil properties: a meta-analytical approach
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, 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
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
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
Knapp, Keeley, Ballenger, Brennan 2005 Fuel reduction and coarse woody debris dynamics with early season and late season prescribed fire in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest
Converse, White, Farris, Zack 2006 Small mammals and forest fuel reduction: national-scale responses to fire and fire surrogates
Kopper 2002 Meta-analysis design and interpretation: a case study of prescribed fire effects on fuel loadings in ponderosa pine ecosystems
Knapp, Keeley 2006 Heterogeneity in fire severity within early season and late season prescribed burns in a mixed-conifer forest
Chalmers, Hartsough 2001 Thinning and prescribed fire as methods to reduce fuel loading - a cost analysis
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
McIver, Erickson, Youngblood 2012 Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study
Bartuszevige, Kennedy 2009 Synthesis of knowledge on the effects of fire and thinning treatments on understory vegetation in U.S. dry forests
Kennedy, Fontaine 2009 Synthesis of knowledge on the effects of fire and fire surrogates on wildlife in U.S. dry forests
Knapp, Schwilk, Kane, Keeley 2007 Role of burning season on initial understory vegetation response to prescribed fire in a mixed conifer forest
Knapp, Keeley 2006 Heterogeneity in fire severity within early season and late season prescribed burns in a mixed-conifer forest
Schwilk, Knapp, Ferrenberg, Keeley, Caprio 2006 Tree mortality from fire and bark beetles following early and late season prescribed fires in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest
Edminster, Weatherspoon, Neary 2000 The Fire and Fire Surrogates Study: providing guidelines for fire in future forest watershed management decisions
McIver, Weatherspoon, Edminster 2001 Alternative ponderosa pine restoration treatments in the western United States
Weatherspoon 2000 A proposed long-term national study of the consequences of fire and fire surrogate treatments
Fire and Fire Surrogates Study Southern Sierra Nevada (Sequoia, CA) Site Map thumbnail

Site Manager

Dylan Schwilk
USGS, Western Ecological Research Station

Site Data Manager

Dylan Schwilk
USGS, Western Ecological Research Station

Contact

Eric Knapp
USFS, PSW Research Station
eric.e.knapp@usda.gov
530-226-2555

Site Discipline Leaders

Economics

Jamie Barbour
USFS, PNW Research Station

Entomology

Scott Ferrenberg
USGS, Western Ecological Research Station

Fuels

Dylan Schwilk
USGS, Western Ecological Research Station

Pathology

Patricia Maloney
University of California, Davis

Soils

Indy Burke
Colorado State University

Sarah Hamman
Colorado State University

Philip Rundel
University of California, Los Angeles

Vegetation

Dylan Schwilk
USGS, Western Ecological Research Station

Wildlife

Steve Zack
Wildlife Conservation Society

Kerry Farris
Wildlife Conservation Society