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Project ID: 01B-3-3-15

Year: 2002

Date Started: 05/16/2002

Date Completed: 08/14/2006

Title: Integrating Prescribed Fire into Management of Mixed-Oak Forests of the Mid-Atlantic Region: Developing Basic Fire Behavior and Fuels Information for the Silvah System

Project Proposal Abstract: Nearly a century of fire prevention and exclusion in the eastern United States has resulted in dense mixed-oak forests that are incapable of sustaining themselves and a lack of basic fuels and fire behavior knowledge/information for this forest type. There is growing interest in using more prescribed fire to sustain mixed-oak forests but managers desiring to do so are hampered by this fuels/fire behavior knowledge gap. This dearth of basic information also impacts wildfire control efforts, especially in the expanding urbanlwildland interface. The primary objectives of this study are to develop a photo series for the common fuel conditions of mixed-oak forests and evaluate the appropriateness of the existing hardwood fuel models to these fuel conditions through a series of computer simulations and intensely monitored prescribed fires. By doing so, some of the fuels/fire behavior knowledge gap will be filled, making prescribed fire planning/implementation and wildfire control more effective and safer.

Principal Investigator: Patrick H. Brose

Agency/Organization: Forest Service

Branch or Dept: NRS-Forestry Sciences Lab-Irvine PA

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Thomas Schuler	Forest Service	NRS-Northern Research Station
Co-Principal Investigator	Jeffrey Ward	Connecticut	Agricultural Experiment Station
Collaborator/Contributor	Mike Boland	Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation	Natural Resources
Collaborator/Contributor	Mike Davis	Forest Service	George Washington & Jefferson National Forests
Collaborator/Contributor	Emery Hurlock	Connecticut	Division of Forestry-Eastern District
Collaborator/Contributor	Doug Riley	NPS-National Park Service	Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
Collaborator/Contributor	Elizabeth Schubert	Forest Service	Monongahela NF-Cheat Ranger District
Collaborator/Contributor	John Schultz	Forest Service	Allegheny National Forest
Federal Cooperator	Patrick H. Brose	Forest Service	NRS-Forestry Sciences Lab-Irvine PA

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
	8835	NonRefereed Publication	Mortality, Survival, and Growth of Individual Stems After Prescribed Burning in Recent Hardwood Clearcuts

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