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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:

RMRS-Fire, Fuel & Smoke Science Program

Other Project Collaborators

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

Project Locations

Fire Science Exchange Network

California

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Spotlight on AMSET Fuel and Fire Research	View
Masticator Treating Study Area	View
Prescribed Burn Treatment - Backing Fire Above Fire Behavior Equipment	View
Prescribed Burn Treatment - Spot Ignitions	View
Forest Ecology and Management	View
Western Journal of Applied Forestry	View
Informal Field Demonstration for Local Forest Service Employees and People from the WO	View
Red Mountain Mastication Study: Southern Sierra Nevada	View
2005 Progress Report	View
2006 Progress Report	View
2006 Annual Report for JFS and the Sequoia National Forest	View
http://www.fs.fed.us./adaptivemanagement/projects/mastication/index.shtml	View
Changes in Surface and Canopy Fuels After Mastication and Mastication/Prescribed Fire Treatments on the Red Mountain Fuels Project, Sequoia National Forest, CA	View
Red Mountain Mastication Study - Field Tour 2010 Presentation	View
Fire Behavior and Fire Effects of Mastication and Prescribed Fire in a Ponderosa Pine Plantation	View