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Project ID: 05-2-1-30

Year: 2005

Date Started: 06/03/2005

Date Completed: 07/21/2009

Title: Red Mountain Mastication Study

Project Proposal Abstract: The Greenhorn Ranger District of the Sequoia National Forest requested that AMSET collaborate with them to formally assess effectiveness of mastication fuel treatments in ponderosa pine plantations. We propose to determine how well mastication works in reducing fuel hazard and wildfire behavior while maintaining live trees. Findings from this research would meet a local need, and would also provide practical knowledge to managers in similar areas in the western U.S. In a typical pine plantation in the southern Sierra, the proposal will establish a study with four treatments: mastication alone, mastication followed by controlled burn, mastication followed by pulling material away from tree boles, then followed by controlled burn, controls in which no action is taken. Utilizing these treatments, an analysis of the effectiveness of mastication fuels treatments to meet resources objectives will be conducted Additionally, fuel measurements will be used to develop custom fuel models, calibrated by fire behavior measurements taken during the controlled burns. Results from this study will be used to develop a management guide for developing plantation thinning prescriptions involving mastication. Findings will be communicated to managers and other interested parties through meetings, a website, and publications.

Principal Investigator: Nicole M. Vaillant

Agency/Organization: Forest Service

Branch or Dept: PNW-Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Ctr

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Jo Ann Fites-Kaufman	Forest Service	AMSET-Adaptive Management Services Enterprise Team
Co-Principal Investigator	Alicia L. Reiner	Forest Service	AMSET-Adaptive Management Services Enterprise Team
Federal Cooperator	Jo Ann Fites-Kaufman	Forest Service	AMSET-Adaptive Management Services Enterprise Team

Project Locations

Consortium

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
	10424	Refereed Publication	Mastication and Prescribed Fire Influences on Tree Mortality and Predicted Fire Behavior in Ponderosa Pine
	8210	Refereed Publication	Mastication and Prescribed Fire Impacts on Fuels in a 25-Year-Old Ponderosa Pine Plantation, Southern Sierra Nevada
	10431	NonRefereed Publication	Spotlight on AMSET Fuel and Fire Research
	10433	Conference/Symposia/Workshop	Fire Behavior and Fire Effects of Mastication and Prescribed Fire in a Ponderosa Pine Plantation
	8058	Conference/Symposia/Workshop	Red Mountain Mastication Study: Southern Sierra Nevada
	10432	Field Demonstration/Tour	Red Mountain Mastication Study - Field Tour 2010 Presentation
	8068	Photo	Prescribed Burn Treatment - Spot Ignitions
	8067	Photo	Prescribed Burn Treatment - Backing Fire Above Fire Behavior Equipment
	8066	Photo	Masticator Treating Study Area
	10435	Poster	Poster-Mastication and prescribed fire impacts on fuels, fire behavior and tree mortality in a 25-year old
	8059	Poster	Changes in Surface and Canopy Fuels After Mastication and Mastication/Prescribed Fire Treatments on the Red Mountain Fuels Project, Sequoia National Forest, CA
	8064	Progress Report	2006 Annual Report for JFS and the Sequoia National Forest
	8063	Progress Report	2006 Progress Report
	8062	Progress Report	2005 Progress Report

Supporting Documents

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Brief

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