Dry forests of the northeastern Cascades Fire and Fire Surrogate Project site, Mission Creek, Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest /
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| Format: | Government Document Book |
| Language: | English |
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Portland, OR :
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station,
[2009]
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| Series: | Research paper PNW ;
577. |
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| Online Access: | http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/pnw_rp577.pdf |
| Abstract: | The Fire and Fire Surrogate (FFS) project is a large long-term metastudy established to assess the effectiveness and ecological impacts of burning and fire "surrogates" such as cuttings and mechanical fuel treatments that are used instead of fire, or in combination with fire, to restore dry forests. One of the 13 national FFS sites is the Northeastern Cascades site at Mission Creek on the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. The study area includes 12 forested stands that encompass a representative range of dry forest conditions in the northeastern Cascade Range. We describe site histories and environmental settings, experimental design, field methods, and quantify the pretreatment composition and structure of vegetation, fuels, soils and soil biota, entomology and pathology, birds, and small mammals that occurred during the 2000 and 2001 field seasons. We also describe the implementation of thinning treatments completed during 2003 and spring burning treatments done during 2004 and 2006. |
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| Item Description: | Cover title. "January, 2009." |
| Physical Description: | 158 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm. Also available on the World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |