Southern Sierra Nevada (Sequoia, CA)
- 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. For more information please visit the Sequoia National Park Study Site Web Site.
- 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
| Dylan Schwilk, USGS, Western Ecological Research Station dschwilk@usgs.gov 559-565-3175 |
Site Data Manager
| Dylan Schwilk, USGS, Western Ecological Research Station dschwilk@usgs.gov 559-565-3175 |
Site Discipline Leaders
| Economics Jamie Barbour, USDA, FS, PNW Research Station jbarbour01@fs.fed.us 503-808-2074 |
Entomology Scott Ferrenberg, USGS, Western Ecological Research Station |
Fuels Dylan Schwilk, USGS, Western Ecological Research Station dschwilk@usgs.gov 559-565-3175 |
| 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 rundel@biology.ucla.edu 310-825-4072 |
Vegetation Dylan Schwilk, USGS, Western Ecological Research Station dschwilk@usgs.gov 559-565-3175 |
| 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 |
CONTACT: Eric Knapp, USGS, Sequoia-Kings Canyon Field Station eknapp@fs.fed.us 530-226-2555 |
| Person | Year | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Neuenschwander, Ryan, Weatherspoon | 2000 | A proposed long-term national study of the consequences of fire and fire surrogate treatments |
| Vance, Edminster, Covington, Blake, McIver, Weatherspoon, Edminster | 2001 | Alternative ponderosa pine restoration treatments in the western United States |
| 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 |
| McIver, Erickson, Youngblood | 2012 | Principal short-term findings of 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 |
| Person | Year | Title |
|---|---|---|
| McIver, Erickson, Youngblood | 2012 | Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study |
| 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 |
| Chalmers, Hartsough | 2001 | Thinning and prescribed fire as methods to reduce fuel loading - a cost analysis |
| Person | Year | Title |
|---|---|---|
| McIver, Erickson, Youngblood | 2012 | Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study |
| 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 |
| Person | Year | Title |
|---|---|---|
| McIver, Erickson, Youngblood | 2012 | Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study |
| Person | Year | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| McIver, Erickson, Youngblood | 2012 | Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study |
| Person | Year | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| McIver, Erickson, Youngblood | 2012 | Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study |
| Knapp, Schwilk, Kane, Keeley | 2007 | Role of burning season on initial understory vegetation response to prescribed fire in a mixed conifer forest |
| Youngblood | 2010 | Thinning and burning in dry coniferous forests of the western United States: effectiveness in altering diameter distributions |
| Person | Year | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Farris, Zack, Amacher, Pierson | 2010 | Microhabitat selection of bark-foraging birds in response to fire and fire surrogate treatments |
| McIver, Erickson, Youngblood | 2012 | Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study |
| Converse, White, Farris, Zack | 2006 | Small mammals and forest fuel reduction: national-scale responses to fire and fire surrogates |
| 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 |
| Monroe, Converse | 2006 | The effects of early season and late season prescribed fires on small mammals in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest |
| Person | Year | Title |
|---|---|---|
| McIver, Erickson, Youngblood | 2012 | Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study |
| Knapp, Schwilk, Kane, Keeley | 2007 | Role of burning season on initial understory vegetation response to prescribed fire in a mixed conifer forest |