• 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 »

1998 AFR Contents

Research, Inventory and Monitoring

Mineral King Risk Reduction Project

Compiled by Anthony Caprio

The Executive Summary of the 1998 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.

Download the full report as one file here (8.75 MB - PDF file)

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

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Download: Cover and Cover Caption (148 kb - PDF file)

Executive Summary - Download: Summary and Sections 1 and 2 (1.4 MB - PDF file)

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1) Project Year Synopsis:

 

 Accomplishments for Each Project and Goals for 1998

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2) Overview of Project

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 2.1) Objectives

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 2.2) Description - East Fork Project Area

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3) Project Year 1998 - Download: Section 3 and 3.11 (1.28 MB - PDF)

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 3.1) Vegetation Sampling

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3.11) Landscape Assessment - Fire and Forest Structure
 by Kurt Menning

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3.12) Evaluation of Multispectral Data for the Determination of Fuel Loads in Forested Environments - Download: Section 3.12 (4 kb - PDF) by William Miller and Mitchell Brookins

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3.13) Fire Effects Monitoring - Download: Section 3.13 (1.2 MB - PDF) by MaryBeth Keifer

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3.14) Prescribed Fire and Heavy Fuel Effects on Mature Giant Sequoia Trees - Download: Section 3.14 (4 kb - PDF) by MaryBeth Keifer

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3.15) Red Fir Regeneration and Fire - Download: Section 3.15 (489 kb - PDF)
 by David Newburn

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3.16) Fuel Inventory and Monitoring - Download: Section 3.16 (1.34 MB - PDF) by Corky Conover

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3.17) Fire History - Download: Section 3.17 (1.18 MB - PDF) by Anthony Caprio

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3.2) Wildlife Sampling - Download: Section 3.2 (984 kb - PDF)

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3.21) Small Mammal Monitoring
 by Harold Werner

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3.3) Watershed Sampling - Download: Section 3.3 (313 kb - PDF) by Claudette Moore and Ian Chan

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- Watershed: Stream Chemistry and Stream Hydrology
 - Claudette Moore and Jon Keeley
- Watershed: Macro-Invertebrate Study
 - Ian Chan, Don Erman and Nancy Erman
3.4) Prescribed Fire-Cost Effectiveness Project - Download: Section 3.4 (43 kb - PDF) by Phil Omi and Douglas Rideout

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3.5) Other - Download: Section 3.5 (7 kb - PDF)

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4) Acknowledgments - Download: Section 4 (3 kb - PDF)

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Did You Know?

Layer of air pollution seen from park views..

Sequoia and Kings Canyon suffer from one of the worst air-pollution problems of any national park! Pollution  — particularly ozone — from the Central Valley and the Bay Area is carried up into these mountains by warm winds. It challenges all of us  everywhere to clear the air!