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Project ID: 01-1-3-11

Year: 2001

Date Started: 09/19/2001

Date Completed: 12/13/2005

Title: Duff Consumption and Southern Pine Mortality

Project Proposal Abstract: The primary goals of this project are to: Determine threshold moisture conditions that initiate and maintain smoldering combustion within the forest floor of southern pine stands and to document the consequences of this combustion for overstory free mortality. Develop prescription guidelines for burning these stands that utilize this information to minimize overstory mortality. To meet these goals we will: (1) quantify the weather and climatic conditions that predispose southeastern duff for consumption; (2) identify patterns and rates of mortality within stands burned with varying duff moisture; and (3) develop a decision matrix for use by managers that will minimize risks of stand damage and dangers of residual smoke from smoldering duff.

Principal Investigator: Joseph J. O’Brien

Agency/Organization: Forest Service

Branch or Dept: SRS-Ctr for Forest Disturbance Science

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Sue A. Ferguson	Forest Service	PNW-Seattle-Managing Natural Disturbances
Co-Principal Investigator	Doria R. Gordon	University of Florida	Department of Botany
Co-Principal Investigator	John K. Hiers	US Air Force	Eglin Air Force Base
Co-Principal Investigator	Robert J. Mitchell	Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center at Ichauway
Co-Principal Investigator	Roger D. Ottmar	Forest Service	PNW-Seattle-Managing Natural Disturbances
Co-Principal Investigator	Robert E. Vihnanek	Forest Service	PNW-Seattle-Managing Natural Disturbances
Co-Principal Investigator	Dale D. Wade	Forest Service	SRS-Southern Forest Experimental Station
Collaborator/Contributor	James H. Furman	US Air Force	Jackson Guard Natural Resources Facility
Collaborator/Contributor	Thomas A. Greene	The Nature Conservancy	GA-Ft. Benning Office
Collaborator/Contributor	G. R. Tate	The Nature Conservancy	GA-Georgia Chapter Office
Collaborator/Contributor	Morgan J. Varner III	Mississippi State University	Department of Forestry
Federal Cooperator	Joseph J. O’Brien	Forest Service	SRS-Ctr for Forest Disturbance Science

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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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