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Project ID: 01-1-2-03

Year: 2001

Date Started: 09/19/2001

Date Completed: 11/03/2005

Title: In-Woods Decision Making of Utilization Opportunities to Lower Costs of Fire Hazard Reduction Treatments

Project Proposal Abstract: Fuels reduction treatments generate a large amount of biomass, most of which is small in diameter. While this material may be suited for wood products, opportunities to process this material are few in the southwestern U.S. Harvesting and transportation costs are often limiting factors. This proposal is designed to examine innovative ways to lower these costs through evaluation of in-woods decision-making regarding tree selection, residuals left on site, product suitability, and market opportunities. It will assess the economic and ecological costs and benefits associated with different harvesting practices and regionally based utilization opportunities in fuel reduction treatments. Using resource characterization in the woods to provide a simple measure of the product potential for this material and estimating the amount of various products in the resource to improve utilization processing is one focus of this work. An evaluation of the benefit of partial in-woods processing to decrease transportation and processing costs will be conducted. These two pieces of information combined will provide an assessment of whether treatments can potentially meet fuels reduction objectives at lower costs. Equally important is determining the influence of residuals left in the woods on fuel loads and how characteristics of this residue affect insect attack rates and reproductive success of pine engraver in ponderosa pine. This information will permit the development of stand treatment specific recommendations as to when seasonal creation of wood residue will, or will not, contribute to overall risk of pest problems associated with economic decisions to leave wood residue in the forest.

Principal Investigator: Robert B. Rummer

Agency/Organization: Forest Service

Branch or Dept: SRS-GW Andrew Forestry Sciences Lab

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Dennis R. Becker	University of Minnesota	Department of Forest Resources
Co-Principal Investigator	Debra Larson	Northern Arizona University	School of Forestry
Co-Principal Investigator	Eini C. Lowell	Forest Service	PNW-Pacific Northwest Research Station
Collaborator/Contributor	Jamie Barbour	Forest Service	PNW-Forestry Sciences Lab-Portland
Collaborator/Contributor	Carleton B. Edminster	Forest Service	RMRS-Southwest Forest Science Complex
Collaborator/Contributor	Marlin Johnson	Forest Service	Region 3-Southwestern Region
Collaborator/Contributor	Stephen Steed	Skyline Forest Resources
Federal Cooperator	Robert B. Rummer	Forest Service	SRS-GW Andrew Forestry Sciences Lab

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Southern Rockies

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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.")

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