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Project ID: 01B-3-3-28

Year: 2002

Date Started: 05/16/2002

Date Completed: 08/07/2006

Title: Fire Effects on Rare Flora and Fauna in Southern California National Forests

Project Proposal Abstract: Fire is an important natural disturbance on the four southern California national forests (Los Padres, Angeles, San Bernardino, and Cleveland). Therefore, forest management plans include prescribed burning as a tool to reduce fire hazard and modify habitat in chaparral, woodland and conifet ecosystems. With burgeoning population pressure at the wildland-urban interface, fire and fuels management concerns have intensified. Anthropogenic ignitions and wildland fires that threaten urban areas complicate national forest fire programs. Lack of knowledge about how threatened, endangered, sensitive or proposed (TESP) species respond to fire slows or restricts development of fire and fuels management plans. Furthermore, prescribed fire may differ from natural fire regimes in intensity, severity, and season of burn. Few of the 64 threatened or endangered plant and animal species on southern California national forests (or the many forest-listed sensitive species) are included in the national Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) or the California updates to the FEIS now in progress. Research is needed to develop an infonnation base describing fire effects on southern California TESP species. We propose to compile information on potential fire responses of TESP species and their close relatives from scientific literature and unpublished reports; via field surveys of previously burned known or suitable TESP species habitat; and by implementing collaborative studies with the national forests (involving the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, where appropriate) in conjunction with their prescribed burning programs. These studies will investigate plant responses to fire severity and season of burn in a replicated design. Results will be made available as a web-accessible database through PSW, distributed in a technical report (also available electronically), and contributed to the FEIS. Journal articles will be developed from experimental studies.

Principal Investigator: Marcia G. Narog

Agency/Organization: Forest Service

Branch or Dept: PSW-Forest Fire Lab-Riverside

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Collaborator/Contributor	Carole A. Bell	The Nature Conservancy	CA-Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve
Collaborator/Contributor	Mark I. Borchert	Forest Service	Los Padres NF-Ojai Ranger District
Collaborator/Contributor	Linh Davis	Forest Service	Cleveland National Forest
Collaborator/Contributor	Anne S. Fege	Business & Ecology Consulting
Collaborator/Contributor	Kate Kramer	Forest Service	San Bernardino NF-San Jacinto Ranger District
Collaborator/Contributor	Tasha LaDoux	Forest Service	Angeles National Forest
Collaborator/Contributor	Melody Lardner	Forest Service	San Bernardino National Forest
Collaborator/Contributor	Steve Loe	Forest Service	San Bernardino National Forest
Collaborator/Contributor	Lisa Mizuno	Forest Service	San Bernardino National Forest
Collaborator/Contributor	Mary Thomas	Forest Service	Cleveland NF-Trabuco Ranger District
Federal Cooperator	Jan L. Beyers	Forest Service	PSW-Forest Fire Lab-Riverside
Federal Fiscal Representative	Bernadette Jaquint	Forest Service	PSW-Pacific Southwest Research Station

Project Locations

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California

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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
	3640	NonRefereed Publication	Using a "Fire Cage" to Test the Response of Arabis johnstonii to Fire

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