Southwestern Plateau (Northern Arizona, AZ)
- Coconino and Kaibab National Forests
- Ponderosa pine
- Fire return interval: 2-20 years
- Represents 2 million hectares in the Southwest
- 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 Edminster, USDA, FS, Rocky Mt. Research Station cedminster@fs.fed.us 520-556-2177 |
Site Data Manager
| Carl Edminster, USDA, FS, Rocky Mt. Research Station cedminster@fs.fed.us 520-556-2177 |
Site Discipline Leaders
| Economics Debra Larson, Northern Arizona University Debra.Larson@nau.edu 520-523-1757 |
Entomology Mike Wagner, Northern Arizona University Mike.Wagner@nau.edu 520-523-6646 |
Fuels Sally Haase, USDA, FS, PSW Research Station shaase@fs.fed.us 951-680-1551 |
| Pathology Bob Mathiason, Northern Arizona University Robert.Mathiasen@nau.edu 520-523-0882 |
Soils Steve Hart, Northern Arizona University Steve.Hart@nau.edu 520-523-6637 |
Vegetation Rob Speer, Northern Arizona University rob.speer@nau.edu 928-523-1471 |
| Wildlife Bill Block, USDA, FS, Rocky Mt. Research Station wblock@fs.fed.us 520-556-2161 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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, 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, Huang, Hart | 2009 | Impacts of Fire and Fire Surrogate treatments on forest soil properties: a meta-analytical approach |
| Hart, DeLuca, Newman, MacKenzie, Boyle | 2005 | Post-fire vegetative dynamics as drivers of microbial community structure and function in forest soils |
| 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 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| McIver, Erickson, Youngblood | 2012 | Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study |