2000 Annual Fire Report TOC

Research, Inventory and Monitoring

Compiled by Anthony Caprio

The contents of the report are listed below. A pdf of the report can be requested via email (be advised that the pdf may not be fully acessible for all audiences).

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Contents and Executive Summary

4

1) Synopsis: Year 2000 Projects

5

2) Park Burn Program

8

2.1) Objectives

8

2.2) Park Area Description

11

3) Fire Year 2000

15

Accomplishments for Each Project and Goals for 2000

4) Project Year 2000

16

4.1) Vegetation Sampling

16

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

16

4.12) Red Fir Plots by Anthony C. Caprio

21

4.13) Fire Effects Monitoring by MaryBeth Keifer

27

4.14) Fuel Inventory and Monitoring by Corky Conover

45

4.15) Fire History by Anthony Caprio

51

4.16) Red Fir Forest Dynamics: The Interaction of Fine-Scale Disturbance and Prescribed Fire by John Battles and David Newburn

66

4.17) The Southern Sierra Repeat Photography Project by Monica Bueno, Jon Keeley, and Nate Stephenson

70

4.18) Biodiversity and Invasives Study: Fire and Community Susceptibility to Invasive Plants by Jon Keeley, Daniel Lubin, and Sarah Hamman

71

4.19) Developing a Landscape-Scale Framework for Interagency Wildland Fuel Management Planning by Pat Lineback

72

4.20) Vegetation Mapping Initiative by Sylvia Haultain>

77

4.21) Evaluation of Cambium and Soil Heating and Other Fire Effects During Prescribed Fire in Giant Sequoia/Mixed Conifer Stands by Sally M. Haase

88

4.2) Wildlife by Harold Werner

110

4.3) Watershed Studies

93

4.31) Watershed Sampling by Claudette Moore

93

4.32) The Effects of Prescribed Burning on Stream Water Chemistry at Different Spatial and Temporal Scales by Andi Heard and John Stednick

95

4.4) Fire Information Cache - The Park's Fire & Resources Web Page by Anthony C. Caprio

98

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

99

4.6) Other Joint Fire Science Projects - "Fire and Fire Surrogates" & "Cheatgrass"

105


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