Experimental fuel treatment impacts on forest structure, potential fire behavior, and predicted tree mortality in a California mixed conifer forest.

Title
Experimental fuel treatment impacts on forest structure, potential fire behavior, and predicted tree mortality in a California mixed conifer forest.
Abstract
Fuel treatments have been suggested as a means to limit the size and intensity of wildfires but few experiments are available to analyze the effectiveness of different treatments. This paper presents information from a replicated, stand level experiment from mixed conifer forests in the north-central Sierra Nevada that investigated how control, mechanical (crown thinning, thinning from below followed, rotary mastication), prescribed fire, and mechanical followed by prescribed fire treatments affected fuels, forest structure, potential fire behavior, and modeled tree mortality at 80th, 90th, and 97.5th percentile fire weather conditions.
Begin Date
2016-08-17
Originator Name
Stephens, S.L. and J. J. Moghaddas. Forest Ecology and Management. vol. 215, pp 21-36.
Links
nature.berkeley.edu/stephenslab/wp-content/uploads/f…
Location
Global or not applicable
Keywords
Fire, Forest Restoration, Fuels Management, Sierra Nevada
Resource Type
Document
Resource Owner
Pax

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