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Project ID: 00-2-05

Year: 2001

Date Started: 02/06/2001

Date Completed: 04/30/2008

Title: Kings River and Lake Tahoe Basin Demonstration Sites for Fuel Treatments

Project Proposal Abstract: We propose to develop prescribed fire, thinning, and control demonstration sites in ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forest types in the southern Sierra Nevada (Sierra National Forest) and in mixed conifer forest in the Lake Tahoe Basin. These two sites will be used to monitor changes in wildlife abundance and productivity, snags, stream flow and chemistry, nutrient cycling, soil physical properties, and vegetation before and after fuels treatments. We have two main objectives: establish easily accessible demonstration sites with interpretative materials for the public and perform designed and replicated research at these sites. These objectives match well with the proposed Cohesive Strategy, Protecting People and Sustaining Resources in Fire-Adapted Ecosystems? (Forest Service 2000). This proposal allows for integration of plot and landscape scale treatments for vegetation, soil and nutrient measurements. Interpretative signs will be posted and the sites will be available for public viewing for a minimum of 15 years. The Kings River Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Project currently conducts 6-8 field trips a year to discuss activities on the Administrative Study and to demonstrate fuels treatments to state and federal agencies, research scientists, elected officials, and environmental and other interested groups. Such outreach activities are expected to increase with the development of the Museum of the Central Sierra at Shaver Lake. The Kings River site will serve a large California Central Valley population (city of Fresno 400,000, Fresno county 761,000 people). The Lake Tahoe site,on the southeast shore of the lake, is close to the population centers of State Line, Nevada, and South Lake Tahoe, California; two areas that draw many visitors for recreation. Researchers at this site plan to work with the Nevada Cooperative Extension; educational outreach will occur for K-i 2 and undergraduates. The Tahoe site is an example of an urban/wildland interface while the Kings River site has multiple ownerships including rural subdivisions and industry. This research will support the Sierra Nevada Framework Project and brings together a diverse set of collaborators: Pacific Southwest Research Station and Sierra National Forest within the Forest Service, University of California, Southern California Edison, University of Nevada, Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station, Nevada Cooperative Extension, and the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.

Principal Investigator: Carolyn T. Hunsaker

Agency/Organization: Forest Service

Branch or Dept: PSW-Forestry Sciences Lab-Fresno

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Karen E. Bagne	Forest Service	RMRS-Forestry Sciences Lab-Albuquerque
Co-Principal Investigator	Sean Eagen	Forest Service	PSW-Forestry Sciences Lab-Fresno
Co-Principal Investigator	Dale W. Johnson	University of Nevada-Reno	Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Science
Co-Principal Investigator	Watkins W. Miller	University of Nevada-Reno	Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Science
Co-Principal Investigator	Kathryn L. Purcell	Forest Service	PSW-Forestry Sciences Lab-Fresno
Co-Principal Investigator	John Rotenberry	University of California-Riverside	Department of Biology
Co-Principal Investigator	Roger F. Walker	University of Nevada-Reno	Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Science
Collaborator/Contributor	Dave Kohut	Forest Service	Sierra National Forest
Collaborator/Contributor	Dave McCandliss	Forest Service	Sierra NF-High Sierra Ranger District
Collaborator/Contributor	Ray Porter	Forest Service	Sierra NF-High Sierra Ranger District
Federal Cooperator	Carolyn T. Hunsaker	Forest Service	PSW-Forestry Sciences Lab-Fresno

Project Locations

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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
	9386	NonRefereed Publication	FIRE in the Sierra Nevada
	9387	Ph.D. Dissertation	The Effects of Prescribed Burning in the Spring on Avian Communities in the Sierra Nevada of California (K.E. Bagne)

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