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Project ID: 00-1-1-06

Year: 2001

Date Started: 11/20/2000

Date Completed: 10/12/2004

Title: Development and Implementation of a System for Prediction of Fire-Induced Shrub and Tree Mortality

Project Proposal Abstract: Current methods for predicting fire-induced plant mortality in shrubs and trees are largely empirical. These methods do not exhibit a wide range of applicability and are not readily linked to duff burning, soil heating, and surface fire behavior models. New models of duff burning and soil heating are currently available and a new physics-based surface fire model is expected within two years. This document proposes that a physics- based three-dimensional stem heating model be developed and coupled to available duff and surface fire models; thereby providing an objective system for predicting shrub and tree mortality caused by heating of the roots and/or bole by surface fires and smoldering duff fires as a function of biological and environmental conditions. Such a system will provide information needed by land managers to accurately evaluate fuel management alternatives before striking the match.

Principal Investigator: Bret W. Butler

Agency/Organization: Forest Service

Branch or Dept: RMRS-Fire Sciences Lab-Missoula

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Daniel M Jimenez	Forest Service	RMRS-Fire Sciences Lab-Missoula
Co-Principal Investigator	James J. Reardon	Forest Service	RMRS-Fire Sciences Lab-Missoula
Co-Principal Investigator	Kevin C. Ryan	Forest Service	RMRS-Fire Sciences Lab-Missoula
Co-Principal Investigator	B. W. Webb	Brigham Young University	Department of Mechanical Engineering
Federal Cooperator	Bret W. Butler	Forest Service	RMRS-Fire Sciences Lab-Missoula

Project Locations

Consortium

Alaska

Appalachian

California

Great Basin

Great Plains

Lake States

Oak Woodlands

Northern Rockies

Northwest

Pacific

South

Southern Rockies

Southwest

Tallgrass

There are no project locations identified for this project.

Project Deliverables

Final Report ("Results presented in JFSP Final Reports may not have been peer-reviewed and should be interpreted as tentative until published in a peer-reviewed source.")

	ID	Type	Title
	595	Refereed Publication	Prediction and Measurement of Thermally Induced Cambial Tissue Necrosis in Tree Stems
	8787	NonRefereed Publication	Thermally Induced Bark Swelling in Four North American Tree Species

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