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Project ID: 98-1-5-03

Year: 1999

Date Started: 06/10/1999

Date Completed: 12/05/2005

Title: Characterizing Historic and Contemporary Fire Regimes in the Lake States

Project Proposal Abstract: Project Objectives. There are three objectives to this project. The first is to conduct a comprehensive literature review and provide a synthesis of the disturbance regimes that distinguished and influenced the forestlands of the Lake States prior to European settlement. The second is to document how fire regimes have changed since European settlement using information on current fire sizes and locations in conjunction with a number of georelational databases. The third is to utilize a number of sources of information including General Land Office records of past fire locations and extent, maps of pre-European settlement vegetation, surficial geology maps, and ecological unit maps to map landscape ecosystems of varying susceptibility to disturbance across sixty-million acres of forested and non-forested lands in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin At the end of the project, a synthesis of all relevant references on historic disturbance regimes affecting the forests of the Lake States will be written and delivered. Additional information on climate, geology, past and current vegetation will be included in the synthesis. A brief annotated bibliography on disturbance literature will also be prepared. Changes in the extent and density of fires will be reported by comparing past fires to contemporary fires using a data base of more than 18,000 fires recorded over the past decade. A map of the entire Lake States region will be created that ranks landscape ecosystems ranging from a few to tens of thousands of acres in size into five classes of wildfire susceptibility. All information will be served over the Internet on the Forest Service's webpage , and could be written to CD's as well.

Principal Investigator: David T. Cleland

Agency/Organization: Forest Service

Branch or Dept: Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest-Park Falls

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Kim D. Brosofske	Michigan Technological University	School of Forest Resources & Environmental Science
Co-Principal Investigator	Thomas R. Crow	Forest Service	NRS-Northern Research Station
Co-Principal Investigator	Donald I. Dickman	Michigan State University	Department of Forestry
Co-Principal Investigator	Ann L. Maclean	Michigan Technological University	School of Forest Resources & Environmental Science
Collaborator/Contributor	John Almendinger	Minnesota	DNR-Division of Forestry-Northeast Region
Collaborator/Contributor	Maureen R. Mislivets	Forest Service	RMRS-Rocky Mountain Research Station
Collaborator/Contributor	Brian R. Sturtevant	Forest Service	NRS-Northern Research Station
Federal Cooperator	David T. Cleland	Forest Service	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest-Park Falls

Project Locations

Consortium

Lake States

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
	652	Refereed Publication	Characterizing Historical and Modern Fire Regimes in Michigan USA: A Landscape Ecosystem Approach
	8888	NonRefereed Publication	Available Fuel Dynamics in Nine Contrasting Forest Ecosystems in North America
	8887	NonRefereed Publication	Determining the Spatial Extent of Historical Fires with Geostatistics in Northern Lower Michigan
	8886	NonRefereed Publication	Fire Return Intervals and Fire Cycles for Historic Fire Regimes in the Great Lakes Region: A Synthesis of the Literature
	8885	NonRefereed Publication	Assessing Fire Risk in the Wildland-Urban Interface
	8884	NonRefereed Publication	Occurrence of Wildfire in the Northern Great Lakes Region: Effects of Land Cover and Land Ownership Assessed at Multiple Scales
	8883	NonRefereed Publication	Environmental and Social Factors Influencing Wildfires in the Upper Midwest USA
	8882	NonRefereed Publication	Disturbance and Landscape Dynamics in the Chequamegon National Forest Wisconsin USA, from 1972 to 2001
	589	NonRefereed Publication	Annotated Bibiography of Natural Disturbance in the Lake States

Supporting Documents

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Brief

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