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Project ID: 09-2-01-7

Year: 2009

Date Started: 06/01/2009

Date Completed: 05/17/2011

Title: A Comprehensive Fuels Treatment Practices Guide for Ponderosa/Jeffrey Pine and Ponderosa/Mixed Conifer Forests

Project Proposal Abstract: Managers need access to the latest information on fuel treatments from both scientific research and other managers' experience. We will produce a guide to fuel treatment practices for ponderosa pine/jeffrey pine and ponderosa pine/mixed conifer forests in California and the Southwest by reviewing the existing literature, interviewing land managers, and conducting field meetings and synthesizing that information into the guide. This guide is important to managers because while millions of acres of these forests need fuel management, few resources exist to help plan these treatments. Sufficient science exists, but our guide will be the first synthesis of the research information for managers. We will also incorporate the applicable lessons researchers learned in creating A Comprehensive Guide to Fuels Treatment Practices for Ponderosa Pine in the Black Hills, Colorado Front Range, and Southwest. One of our first tasks is to clearly define ponderosa pine/Jeffrey pine and ponderosa pine/mixed conifer forests since the forest type exists along a broad continuum of climatic zones and consists of many different assemblages of species. Our synthesis will focus on California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, including forests of the eastern and western Sierra, the transverse and peninsular ranges in southern California, the central/southern Rocky Mountains, and the southwestern plateaus and uplands. In these areas we will cover mixed conifer forests where they mix with ponderosa and Jeffery pine. We will not include ponderosa pine stands that are too hot and/or too dry to support mixed conifer forest. We will work with the team led by Han-Sup Han that is writing a complimentary guide to fuel treatment practices in the mixed conifer forests of the Cascades, Blue, and northern Rocky Mountains. We will organize conference calls and share information on definitions, approach, results, and deliverable products throughout the project. Our first step will be to review the existing scientific literature about the ecology, silvics, silviculture, fire, and fuels treatments for these forests. During the same time frame, we will also contact land managers who work in these forests from Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, and U.S. Geological Survey to ensure that federal land managers are involved. We will also reach out to tribal, state, municipal, and private land stewards to include their perspective and experience on fuel treatments in ponderosa pine/Jeffrey pine and ponderosa pine/mixed conifer forests. We will interview managers and create case studies of specific fuels treatments and results based on their work. To help guide the integration of managers' experience with the literature review, we will assemble an advisory team to advise the project. The advisory team will provide a review of report drafts and help extract key themes from land manager interviews in order to write a section on Comprehensive Management Principles for the report. The advisory team will be diverse in profession, organizational affiliation, and expertise. We will invite participation from federal agencies, academics, and on-the-ground managers. Most land managers prefer to learn and share knowledge in the field. To facilitate this exchange we will host at least two field meetings to bring together managers and gather information about fuels treatments in ponderosa pine/Jeffrey pine and ponderosa pine/mixed conifer forests. After the report is completed, we will stage a second set of meetings to discuss our results with managers in the field. The final result of our research will be a publication that follows the format of RMRS-GTR-198 and provides land managers with information they can use to implement successful fuel treatment projects. The report will be written for managers in clear language with a focus on practical solutions that are illustrated by photos wherever

Principal Investigator: Alexander M. Evans

Agency/Organization: Forest Guild

Branch or Dept:

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Scott L. Stephens	University of California-Berkeley	Department of Environmental Sciences-Policy & Management
Federal Cooperator	James A. Youtz	Forest Service	Region 3-Southwestern Region
Federal Fiscal Representative	Susan K. McDonnell	Forest Service	Region 3-Southwestern Region

Project Locations

Consortium

California

Great Basin

Southern Rockies

Southwest

Level	State	Agency	Unit
STATE	AZ	MULTIPLE
STATE	CO	MULTIPLE
STATE	NM	MULTIPLE
STATE	UT	MULTIPLE
STATE	CA	MULTIPLE

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
	9750	Refereed Publication	A Comprehensive Fuels Treatment Practices Guide for Ponderosa/Jeffrey Pine and Ponderosa/Mixed Conifer Forests (California, Southwest, and Southern Rockies)
	9195	NonRefereed Publication	Integrating Place-Based Knowledge and Research for Fuel Treatments in Mixed Conifer Forests
	9388	NonRefereed Publication	Comprehensive Fuels Treatment Practices Guide for Mixed Conifer Forests: California, Central and Southern Rockies, and the Southwest
	9196	Poster	A Comprehensive Fuels Treatment Practices Guide for Ponderosa/Jeffrey Pine and Ponderosa/Mixed Conifer Forests

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