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Project ID: 03-2-3-08

Year: 2003

Date Started: 07/29/2003

Date Completed: 09/06/2006

Title: Pre-Fire Condition, Fire Severity, and Post-Fire Effects in the Hayman Burn, Colorado

Project Proposal Abstract: Ongoing research within the 2002 Hayman burn provides an excellent framework for comparing effects of the Hayman burn to pre-fire forest conditions. Two pre-fire data sets support the proposed research. One characterizes historical landscape structure and key regulating processes and includes plot-level measurements of forest overstory structure, understory species composition, fuels, and fire history. The second dataset is pre-treatment monitoring data collected as part of the Upper South Platte Restoration Project, which includes forest overstory and understory plant data, surface fuels, and habitat monitoring for several species of concern. All of these plots burned with varying intensity. Our primary objectives focus on re-sampling our pre-bum plots near Cheesman Lake and Saloon Gulch to (1) evaluate the effects of burn severity, pre-fire stand characteristics, and topography on tree survivorship; (2) determine the effects of burn severity and pre-fire composition on post-fire understory species composition; (3) examine the effects of pre-fire fuels and vegetation structure on patterns of burn severity, and (4) investigate the effects of bum-severity on habitat for species of concern. The proposed study augments collaborative projects, including validation of relationships in the FFE of the Central Rockies FVS variant, validation of pre-fire fuel reconstructions derived from post-fire surveys, and modeling fire behavior with mesoscale weather data for the study area.

Principal Investigator: Merrill R. Kaufmann

Agency/Organization: Forest Service

Branch or Dept: RMRS-Forestry Sciences Lab-Fort Collins

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Natasha Kotliar	USGS-Geological Survey	FORT-Fort Collins Science Center
Collaborator/Contributor	Geneva W. Chong	USGS-Geological Survey	BRD-National Elk Refuge
Collaborator/Contributor	Steve Culver	Forest Service	Pike & San Isabel NFs-South Platte Ranger District
Collaborator/Contributor	Gary E. Dixon	Forest Service	RMRS-Forest Management Service Center
Collaborator/Contributor	Leslie E. Ellwood	FWS-Fish and Wildlife Service	Region 6-Mountain Prairie Region
Collaborator/Contributor	Barry Johnston	Forest Service	GMUG-Gunnison Service Center
Collaborator/Contributor	Erik J. Martinson	MarLynn Ecological Consulting
Collaborator/Contributor	Philip N. Omi	Omi Associates
Collaborator/Contributor	Thomas J. Stohlgren	USGS-Geological Survey	FORT-Fort Collins Science Center
Federal Cooperator	Merrill R. Kaufmann	Forest Service	RMRS-Forestry Sciences Lab-Fort Collins

Project Locations

Consortium

Southern Rockies

Southwest

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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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