Southwestern Plateau | Study Sites | Fire and Fire Surrogates Study

Coconino and Kaibab National Forests
Ponderosa pine
Fire return interval: 2-20 years
Represents 2 million hectares in the Southwest

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Site Manager

Carl Edminster, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station

Site Data Manager

Carl Edminster, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station

Site Discipline Leaders

*Economics* Debra Larson, Northern Arizona University	*Entomology* Mike Wagner, Northern Arizona University	*Fuels* Sally Haase, USDA Forest Service, PSW Research Station
*Pathology* Bob Mathiason, Northern Arizona University	*Soils* Steve Hart, Northern Arizona University	*Vegetation* Rob Speer, Northern Arizona University
*Wildlife* Bill Block, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station

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
Edminster, Weatherspoon, Neary	2000	The Fire and Fire Surrogates Study: providing guidelines for fire in future forest watershed management decisions
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
McIver, Weatherspoon	2010	On conducting a multisite, multidisciplinary forestry research project: lessons from 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
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
Vance, Edminster, Covington, Blake, McIver, Weatherspoon, Edminster	2001	Alternative ponderosa pine restoration treatments in the western United States
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
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
Bartuszevige, Kennedy	2009	Synthesis of knowledge on the effects of fire and thinning treatments on understory vegetation in U.S. dry forests
Converse	2005	Small mammal responses to forest restoration and fuel reduction
Converse, White, Block	2006	Small mammal responses to thinning and wildfire in ponderosa pine-dominated forests of the southwestern United States
Converse, White, Farris, Zack	2006	Small mammals and forest fuel reduction: national-scale responses to fire and fire surrogates
Hurteau, Sisk, Dickson, Block	2010	Variability in nest density, occupancy, and home range size of western bluebirds after forest 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
Van Riper, Cole, Converse, Dickson, White, Block	2004	Estimating small mammal abundance on fuels treatment units in southwestern ponderosa pine forests

Person	Year	Title
McIver, Erickson, Youngblood	2012	Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study