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Project ID: 06-2-1-17

Year: 2006

Date Started: 07/07/2006

Date Completed: 04/30/2010

Title: Restoring Fire to Endemic Cypress Populations in Northern California

Project Proposal Abstract: We propose a study to meet the following objectives: 1) Examine how prescribed burning and thinning treatments affect cypress regeneration; 2) Identify factors that influence recruitment of cypress, such as fire return interval, stand age, fire severity, fuel loads, and site conditions such as duff depth, canopy cover, and percentage of exposed mineral soil; and 3) Develop recommendation for cypress management and provide a risk assessment of cypress populations across the Klamath, Plumas, and Lassen National Forests, and the Alturas Resource Area of the BLM. We will establish four study sites where prescribed burning and thinning treatments will be applied using an experimental design. We will also collect data on cypress regeneration at sites that have been burned by wildfires and sites that have been logged. This proposed research will identify factors that promote cypress regeneration. We will develop and disseminate products that describe these factors, make recommendations about how to achieve these conditions through management, and assess the risk of other extant cypress occurrences throughout the Klamath, Plumas, and Lassen National Forests and the Alturas Resource Area of the BLM. These products will be widely available through a website, a General Technical Report, a scientific publication and presentations, agency presentations, and an agency workshop and field trip. This information will not only fill local data gaps in our understanding of how to restore fire to cypress occurrences in northern California, but will also provide general information about cypress regeneration that may help inform management of cypress throughout the rest of the state.

Principal Investigator: Kyle M. Merriam

Agency/Organization: Forest Service

Branch or Dept: Modoc National Forest

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Max Creasy	Forest Service	Klamath National Forest
Co-Principal Investigator	Hugh D. Safford	Forest Service	PSW-Univ of CA-Davis
Federal Cooperator	Linnea Hanson	Forest Service	Plumas NF-Feather River Ranger District

Project Locations

Consortium

California

Northwest

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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
	8159	Invited Paper/Presentation	Using Fire to Restore Baker Cypress Populations in Northern California
	8160	Poster	Population Distribution and Age Structure on Baker Cypress Stands in Northern California and Southern Oregon
	8158	Poster	Restoring Fire to Baker Cypress Populations in Northern California

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