• 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 »

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1995 AFR Contents

Cover of Mineral King Report

Annual Report 1995

Research, Inventory, and Monitoring

Mineral King Risk Reduction Project

Anthony C. Caprio (compiler)
Data Coordinator & Fire Ecologist
Science and Natural Resources Division
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
Three Rivers, CA 93271-9700
June 7, 1996

The Executive Summary of the 1996 Mineral King Risk Reduction Project Annual 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.

The report is divided into multiple sections for faster downloading.

Report Cover (134 K)Section 1 (1.8 MB)
Page
Executive Summary
3
I) Project Year Synopsis:
Accomplishments for Each 1995 Project and Goals for 1996
4
II) Overview of Project
A) Objectives
6
B) Description - East Fork Project Area
8
Section 2 (773 kb)
III) Project Year 1995
12
A) Vegetation Sampling
15
1) Fire Effects Plots
15
2) Giant Sequoia Fire Scars and Fuel Loading
17
3) Natural Resource Inventory (NRI)
18
B) Wildlife Monitoring
19
C) Watershed Sampling
23
1) Watershed: Stream Chemistry and Stream Hydrology
23
2) Watershed: Aquatic Biota Survey
26
Section 3 (303 kb)
D) Fuels Inventory and Monitoring
27
E) Fire History
32
F) Economic/Social Modeling
34
G) Data Coordinator
34
IV) References
36
V) Appendices
38
1) Study Plan: Prescribed Fire and Heavy Fuel Effects on Mature Giant Sequoia Trees
39
2) Report on: Fire Effects Monitoring on Wildlife
47


Did You Know?

Col. Charles Young in uniform

In 1903, an African-American served as superintendent of Sequoia National Park, the first to do so in the National Park Service. Colonel Charles Young and his troops played a major part in completing the first wagon road to the Giant Forest, and the Moro Rock Road. A sequoia tree was named for him. More...