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Project ID: 05-S-03

Year: 2005

Date Started: 02/15/2005

Date Completed: 10/12/2007

Title: Development of Best Management Practices for Fuels Treatments in Ponderosa Pine Ecosystems in the Black Hills, SD and Southwestern United States

Project Proposal Abstract: We will document specific conditions and practices where management interventions is appropriate to reduce fuels hazards, while attempting to simultaneously restore the forest community to pre-settlement conditions. To achieve these goals, we will synthesize existing knowledge from the peer-reviewed literature, administrative studies, and local knowledge. We will bring together local knowledge at a series of regional workshops and identify fire specialists for follow-up interviews. Deficits in the existing knowledge will be identified. We will use existing models that integrate spatial fuel models into a fire behavior model at scales ranging from sub-stands to landscapes to evaluate fuel treatments. We will describe treatments, which will include the circumstances under which specific techniques can be applied, and expected reductions in fuels hazard. We will provide recommendations related to where, how, and how often fuels treatments may be prescribed to achieve desired outcomes. Desired outcomes will address social, political, economic, and ecological factors. Finally, to insure that managers have access to our results, we will develop and implement a website and develop multi-media guidelines describing management practices for fuels treatments in ponderosa pine forests.

Principal Investigator: Wayne D. Shepperd

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	Jack L. Butler	Forest Service	RMRS-Forest & Grassland Research Lab
Co-Principal Investigator	Leigh B. Lentile	Sewanee-The University of the South	Department of Forestry & Geology
Co-Principal Investigator	John E. Lundquist	Forest Service	RMRS-Rocky Mountain Research Station
Federal Cooperator	Janine E. Powell	Forest Service	RMRS-Rocky Mountain Research Station

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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
	9744	Refereed Publication	A Comprehensive Guide to Fuels Treatment Practices for Ponderosa Pine in the Black Hills, Colorado Front Range, and Southwest
	9608	NonRefereed Publication	A Comprehensive Guide to Fuels Treatment Practices for Ponderosa Pine in the Black Hills, Colorado Front Range, and Southwest
	9405	NonRefereed Publication	Best Management Practices for Fuel Treatments in Ponderosa Pine Ecosystems in the Black Hills, SD, the Front Range, CO, and the Southwestern United States

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