Advanced Search Results Detail

Project ID: 01-1-3-19

Year: 2001

Date Started: 09/19/2001

Date Completed: 04/10/2006

Title: Effects of Fuels-Reduction and Exotic Plant Removal on Vertebrates, Vegetation, and Water Resources in Southwestern Riparian Ecosystems

Project Proposal Abstract: Fuel reduction treatments are needed in southwestern riparian ecosystems. The middle Rio Grande riparian bosque (woodland) in Sandoval, Bernallilo, Valencia, and Socorro Counties, New Mexico, is a prime example of a system where fuel reduction is needed to prevent further spread of wildfire in southwestern riparian woodlands, and to reduce risks of fire damage for residents of Albuquerque, Socorro, Belen, Isleta, Sandia, Cochiti, and surrounding rural areas. Dead and downed wood and exotic woody plants comprise fUels leading to high bosque fire risk. Research will identify fuels-reduction practices that will simultaneously preserve cottonwoods and other natiye plants, reduce wild fire risk via fuels removal, control spread of exotic woody shrubs, and have positive or neutral impacts on wildlife species. Three treatments will be compared: 1) Mechanical removal of dead and down wood and exotic plants, 2) Partial mechanical removal of dead, down, and exotics followed by light prescribed fire, 3) Mechanical removal of dead, downed, and exotics followed by revegetation with native plants. Our proposed study evaluates treatment effectiveness at 16 sites over 4 counties by monitoring water quantity, soil salinity, habitat structure, plant reproductive response, and bird, bat, and herptile populations. This study addresses Task 3 of the RFP "Within the matrix of land management practices, determine the cumulative effects offuels manipulation/reduction methods...." Specifically we target Element 1 of Task 3, "address fuels treatment impacts on wildflfe populations and habitat structure, hydrology, soils, ecosystem health, or other environmental variables at a landscape or regional level."

Principal Investigator: Deborah M. Finch

Agency/Organization: Forest Service

Branch or Dept: RMRS-Forestry Sciences Lab-Albuquerque

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Alice Chung-McCoubrey	Forest Service	RMRS-Forestry Sciences Lab-Albuquerque
Co-Principal Investigator	Roy Jemison	Forest Service	RMRS-Forestry Sciences Lab-Albuquerque
Co-Principal Investigator	Jeffrey Kelly	University of Oklahoma	Biological Survey
Collaborator/Contributor	Steve Ackers	Oregon State University	Andrews Experimental Forest
Collaborator/Contributor	Roberta Chavez	BIA-Bureau of Indian Affairs	Jicarilla Agency
Collaborator/Contributor	Greg Fenchel	NRCS-Natural Resources Conservation Service	Plant Materials Center-Los Lunas
Collaborator/Contributor	Yasmeen Najmi	New Mexico	Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District
Collaborator/Contributor	Matthew C. Schraeder	City of Albuquerque
Collaborator/Contributor	John P. Taylor	FWS-Fish and Wildlife Service	Bosque del Apache NWR
Collaborator/Contributor	Charles P. Wicklund	New Mexico	Forestry Division
Federal Cooperator	Deborah M. Finch	Forest Service	RMRS-Forestry Sciences Lab-Albuquerque

Project Locations

Consortium

Southwest

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
	8813	NonRefereed Publication	Special Focus Session: Ecology, Monitoring, and Management of Tamarisk: Overview of Tamarisk Problems and Management
	8812	NonRefereed Publication	Special Focus Session: Ecology, Monitoring, and Management of Tamarisk: Monitoring Responses to Tamarisk and its Control

Supporting Documents

The following supporting documents are available for this project.

Brief

Convert PDF documents to an html document using Adobe's online conversion tool.