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Project ID: 00-2-25

Year: 2001

Date Started: 03/07/2001

Date Completed: 07/05/2005

Title: Demonstration Plots for Comparing Fuel Complexes and Profile Development in Untreated Stands versus Stands Treated for the Management of Spruce Beetle Outbreaks and Implications for Fuels Manipulation

Project Proposal Abstract: The activity of insects, diseases and abiotic agents is known to contribute to changes in the characteristics of fuels complexes and associated fire behavior. Landscape-scale density management strategies have been proposed as viable alternatives to sanitation or salvage for managing insect and disease outbreaks. The effect pf various density treatments on fuels complexes, or fuels development, however, is not known. An important agent of disturbance in Intermountain Region National Forests is the spruce beetle. Outbreaks have caused extensive mortality resulting in significant loss of timber, recreational opportunities and reduced aesthetics. Mortality resulting from outbreaks has also resulted in increased dead fuel loads and will likely alter the fuels complex of infested stands over time. The Fishlake National Forest in cooperation with the Utah State Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands will implement two density management treatments in several spruce-fir forests with the purpose of reducing susceptibility of these stands to spruce beetle infestation to and enhance tree vigor. This situation provides an excellent opportunity to establish permanent demonstration plots in treated verses untreated stands. Fuels inventories and appraisals will be conducted to determine changes in the fuel complex and profile over time. Based on the fuel inventory and appraisal data fuels treatment strategies including a combination of mechanical and biomass utilization will be implemented on the demonstration plots. Prescribed fire will also be considered for treating fuel provided all prescription variables are met. Other benefits derived from this information include the demonstration of strategies for managing insect outbreaks and fuel development and manipulation.

Principal Investigator: Michael J. Jenkins

Agency/Organization: Utah State University

Branch or Dept: Department of Wildland Resources

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Elizabeth G. Hebertson	Forest Service	Region 4-Forest Health Protection-Ogden
Collaborator/Contributor	Kelly Allen	Utah	Fire & State Lands
Collaborator/Contributor	Alan Henningson	Forest Service	Fishlake National Forest
Federal Cooperator	Linda Wadleigh	Forest Service	Kaibab National Forest

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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
	386	Refereed Publication	Mountain Pine Beetle Induced Changes to Selected Lodgepole Pine Fuel Complexes within the Intermountain Region
	478	Refereed Publication	Predicted Fire Behavior in Selected Mountain Pine Beetle Infested Lodgepole Pine Stands Within the Intermountain Region
	480	NonRefereed Publication	Demonstration Plots for Comparing Fuel Complexes and Profile Development Associated with Spruce Beetle Management
	8793	Poster	Demonstration Plots for Comparing Fuels Complexes and Profile Development Associated with Spruce Beetle Activity
	8794	Poster	Demonstration Plots for Comparing Fuel Complexes in Stands Managed for the Spruce Beetle

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