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Project ID: 03-1-4-21

Year: 2003

Date Started: 07/29/2003

Date Completed: 02/16/2005

Title: Designing an Experiment to Evaluate Effects of Fire and Fire Surrogate Treatments in the Sagebrush Biome

Project Proposal Abstract: This proposal seeks funding to develop a comprehensive experiment that could be used to evaluate the effects of fire and fire surrogate treatments that are designed to restore sagebrush communities of the Great Basin. The experiment would: 1) provide managers with information to restore ecological communities that is relevant across the 100+ million acres of the sagebrush biome; 2) be matched to the temporal and spatial scales at which managers operate; and 3) reduce management risk and uncertainty of catastrophic wildfire to the greatest degree possible. The need for such an experiment is evidenced by the profound changes in fire regime experienced in the Great Basin in the past 150 years, coupled with the lack of information available to managers on the consequences of methods they might use to reduce fire risk or to restore more desirable plant communities and fire regimes. The need for funding to design the experiment is based on the perception that the problem of altered fire regimes in the Great Basin is so complex that a significant commitment in time and energy is required to identify the key issues (conditions, treatments, variables, etc.) that would make up the experimental design. Thus, without the care and considerable thought that would go into the design phase, it would be very difficult to propose an experiment that could provide results to managers that would be worth the time, effort, and money spent. Objectives include: 1) Produce a comprehensive experimental design that could be used to evaluate restoration treatments at several sites within an integrated network, to be submitted to the JFSP by March 2004; 2) Develop ownership in the network with land managers and stakeholders; and 3) Develop a Communications Plan, that would identify key information, audiences, and delivery systems. We propose to accomplish these objectives by conducting three carefully designed steering committee meetings for the network as a whole, interspersed with a single manager/stakeholder workshop at each participating site. Information from the workshops, from existing literature, from ongoing parallel studies, and from maps of various attributes will be evaluated in the steering committee meetings to craft the experimental design. Our objectives closely match those called for under Task Statement 4 of the 2003-1 JFSP Announcement for Proposals, which calls for projects that evaluate alternative treatments for restoring ecosystems altered by changing fire regimes, or where alterations have affected fire regimes.

Principal Investigator: James D. McIver

Agency/Organization: Oregon State University

Branch or Dept: Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Jeanne C. Chambers	Forest Service	RMRS-Forestry Sciences Lab-Reno
Co-Principal Investigator	Carla D'Antonio	ARS-Agricultural Research Service	Exotic & Invasive Weeds Research Unit-Reno
Co-Principal Investigator	Paul S. Doescher	Oregon State University	Department of Forest Ecosystems & Society
Co-Principal Investigator	Michael G. Karl	BLM-Bureau of Land Management	National Science & Technology Center
Co-Principal Investigator	Richard R. Miller	Oregon State University	Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center
Co-Principal Investigator	Mike L. Pellant	BLM-Bureau of Land Management	Idaho State Office
Co-Principal Investigator	David A. Pyke	USGS-Geological Survey	FRESC-Forest & Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center
Co-Principal Investigator	Robin J. Tausch	Forest Service	RMRS-Forestry Sciences Lab-Reno
Co-Principal Investigator	Michael J. Wisdom	Forest Service	PNW-Forestry & Range Sciences Lab-LaGrande
Federal Cooperator	Jeanne C. Chambers	Forest Service	RMRS-Forestry Sciences Lab-Reno

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Great Basin

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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.")

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