• Giant Sequoia Trees

    Sequoia & Kings Canyon

    National Parks California

  • Road Construction Delays in Sequoia NP through Mid-Aug. (if entering/exiting via Hwy. 198)

    Expect 20-minute to 1-hour delays on weekdays and 20-minute delays on weekends along main road through parks. Weeknight closures with one pass through the construction zone at 11:30 p.m. See link to schedule and map or call 559-565-3341 (press 1, 1, 1,). More »

  • 22-foot Vehicle Length Limit in Sequoia National Park

    Planning to see the "Big Trees" in Sequoia National Park? If you enter/exit via Hwy. 198, all vehicles must be less than 22 feet in length. Even vehicles towing trailers must be less than 22 feet in combined length. Longer vehicles must enter at Hwy. 180. More »

  • Road Conditions in the Parks

    For the latest road and weather conditions, call 559-565-3341 (press 1, 1, 1) More »

2000 Annual Fire Report TOC

Research, Inventory and Monitoring

Compiled by Anthony Caprio

The Executive Summary of the 2000 Annual Fire Report is available in HTML format. The entire report is available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. To view these files you will need a free Acrobat Reader. If you do not have one, you can download it from Adobe here.

Download the full report as one file here (4.1 MB - PDF file)

The report is divided into multiple sections below for easier downloading.

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Cover - Download: Cover and Cover Caption (97 kb - PDF file)

Contents and Executive Summary - Download: Contents, Summary and Sections 1 and 2 (616 kb - PDF file)

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1) Synopsis: Year 2000 Projects

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2) Park Burn Program

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2.1) Objectives

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2.2) Park Area Description

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3) Fire Year 2000 - Download: Section 3 (7 kb - PDF)

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Accomplishments for Each Project and Goals for 2000

4) Project Year 2000

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4.1) Vegetation Sampling

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4.11) Landscape Assessment - Fire and Forest Structure - Download: Section 4.11 (489 kb - PDF)
by Kurt Menning

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4.12) Red Fir Plots - Download: Section 4.12 (736 kb - PDF)
by Anthony C. Caprio

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4.13) Fire Effects Monitoring - Download: Section 4.13 (68 kb - PDF)
by MaryBeth Keifer

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4.14) Fuel Inventory and Monitoring - Download: Section 4.14 (275 kb - PDF) by Corky Conover

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4.15) Fire History - Download: Section 4.15 (1 MB - PDF)
by Anthony Caprio

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4.16) Red Fir Forest Dynamics: The Interaction of Fine-Scale Disturbance and Prescribed Fire - Download: Section 4.16 (24 kb - PDF)
by John Battles and David Newburn

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4.17) The Southern Sierra Repeat Photography Project - Download: Section 4.17 (6 kb - PDF)
by Monica Bueno, Jon Keeley, and Nate Stephenson

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4.18) Biodiversity and Invasives Study: Fire and Community Susceptibility to Invasive Plants - Download: Section 4.18 (8 kb - PDF)
by Jon Keeley, Daniel Lubin, and Sarah Hamman

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4.19) Developing a Landscape-Scale Framework for Interagency Wildland Fuel Management Planning - Download: Section 4.19 (222 kb - PDF) by Pat Lineback

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4.20) Vegetation Mapping Initiative - Download: Section 4.20 (12 kb - PDF)
by Sylvia Haultain>

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4.21) Evaluation of Cambium and Soil Heating and Other Fire Effects During Prescribed Fire in Giant Sequoia/Mixed Conifer Stands - Download: Section 4.21 (20 kb - PDF)
by Sally M. Haase

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4.2) Wildlife - Download: Section 4.2 (53 kb - PDF)
by Harold Werner

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4.3) Watershed Studies

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4.31) Watershed Sampling - Download: Section 4.3 (7 kb - PDF)
by Claudette Moore

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4.32) The Effects of Prescribed Burning on Stream Water Chemistry at Different Spatial and Temporal Scales - Download: Section 4.3 (23 kb - PDF)
by Andi Heard and John Stednick

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4.4) Fire Information Cache - The Park's Fire & Resources Web Page - Download: Section 4.4 (20 kb - PDF)
by Anthony C. Caprio

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4.5) An Analytical Approach for Assessing Cost-Effectiveness of Landscape Prescribed Fires (reprint) - Download: Section 4.5 (27 kb - PDF)
by Philip N. Omi, Douglas B. Rideout and Stephen J. Botti

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4.6) Other - Download: Section 4.6 (11 kb - PDF) Joint Fire Science Projects - "Fire and Fire Surrogates" & "Cheatgrass"

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Did You Know?

1890 map of Sequoia National Park.

Sequoia National Park is the second-oldest national park in the United States. It was created by Congress on September 25, 1890. General Grant National Park (the area now called Grant Grove), was designated soon after. Only Yellowstone National Park, created in 1872, is older. More...