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Title: Restoring fire-adapted ecosystems: proceedings of the 2005 national silviculture workshop

Author: Powers, Robert F., tech. editor.

Date: 2007

Source: Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-203, Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. 306 p

Station ID: GTR-PSW-203

Description: Many federal forests are at risk to catastrophic wild fire owing to past management practices and policies. Mangers of these forests face the immense challenge of making their forests resilient to wild fire, and the problem is complicated by the specter of climate change that may affect wild fire frequency and intensity. Some of the Nation’s leading scientists and practitioner present approaches in tackling the problem.

Key Words: wild fire, fuel management, thinning, climate change, fire history, resilience

Front Matter and Table of Contents

Front Matter 436 KB

Introduction and Keynote Address

Introduction and acknowledgments 28 KB
Robert F. Powers and F. Michael Landram

Keynote Address: The role of silviculture in restoring fire-adapted ecosystems 212 KB
James K. Agee

Historical and Future Trends

Forest changes since Euro-American settlement and ecosystem restoration in the Lake Tahoe Basin, USA 2 MB
Alan H. Taylor

Silviculture and forest management under a rapidly changing climate 264 KB
Carl N. Skinner

Management Strategies

Fuels planning: science synthesis and integration 184 KB
Rachel White and Sarah McCaffrey

Stewardship and fireshed assessment: a process for designing a landscape fuel treatment strategy 244 KB
Bernhard Bahro, Klaus H. Barber, Joseph W. Sherlock, and Donald A. Yasuda

Integrating stand density management with fuel reduction 2.5 MB
Joseph W. Sherlock

Reintroducing fire to oak forests of Pennsylvania: response of striped maple 260 KB
Patrick H. Brose, Gary W. Miller, and Kurt W. Gottschalk

Reintroducing fire in regenerated dry forests following stand-replacing wildfire 1.1 MB
David W. Peterson, Paul F. Hessburg, Brion Salter, Kevin M. James, Matthew C. Dahlgreen, and John A. Barnes

Restoring fire-adapted forested ecosystems—research in longleaf pine on the Kisatchie National Forest 1.9 MB
James D. Haywood

Silvicultural Options

Silviculture for the 21st century—objective and subjective standards to guide successful practice 224 KB
James M. Guldin and Russell T. Graham

Free selection: a silvicultural option 1.6 MB
Russell T. Graham, Theresa B. Jain, and Jonathan Sandquist

Landscape silviculture for late-successional reserve management 332 KB
S. Hummell and R.J. Barbour

SDI-Flex: a new technique of allocating growing stock for developing treatment prescriptions in uneven-aged stands 908 KB
Wayne D. Shepperd

Gap-based silviculture in a Sierran mixed-conifer forest: effects of gap size on early survival and 7-year seedling growth 280 KB
Robert A. York, John J. Battles, and Robert C. Heald

Effects of alternative treatments on canopy fuel characteristics in five conifer stands 2.5 MB
Joe H. Scott and Elizabeth D. Reinhardt

Risks and Impacts

The relation between tree burn severity and forest structure in the Rocky Mountains 804 KB
Theresa B. Jain and Russell T. Graham

Fire performance in traditional silvicultural and fire and fire surrogate treatments in Sierran mixed-conifer forests: a brief summary 284 KB
Jason J. Moghaddas and Scott L. Stephens

Delayed conifer tree mortality following fire in California 936 KB
Sharon M. Hood, Sheri L. Smith, and Daniel R. Cluck

Effects of fuel reduction treatments on breeding birds in a southern Appalachian upland hardwood forest 268 KB
Aimee L. Tomcho, Cathryn, H. Greenburg, J. Drew Lanham, Thomas A. Waldrop, Joseph Tomcho, and Dean Simon

Poster Abstracts

Riparian and upland vegetation on the Kings River Experimental Watershed, Sierra Nevada, California 100 KB
Christopher R. Dolanc and Carolyn T. Hunsaker

Prescribed burning ineffective for improving turkey habitat on a recently regenerated mesic site in the southern Appalachian Mountains 32 KB
W. Henry McNab, Ted M. Oprean III, and Erik C. Berg

Putting out fire with gasoline: pitfalls in the silvicultural treatment of canopy fuels 16 KB
Christopher R. Keyes and J. Morgan Varner

Thinning and underburning effects on ground fuels in Jeffrey pine 112 KB
R.F. Walker, R.M. Fecko, W.B. Frederick, J.D. Murphy, W.W. Miller, and D.W. Johnson

Thinning and underburning effects on productivity and mensurational characteristics of Jeffrey pine 120 KB
R.M. Fecko, R.F. Walker, W.B. Frederick, W.W. Miller, and D.W. Johnson

Effect of burn residue proximity on growth of 5 planted mixed-conifer species after 6 years 120 KB
Robert A. York and Robert C. Heald

Soil responses to the fire and fire surrogate study in the Sierra Nevada 96 KB
Emily E.Y Moghaddas and Scott L. Stephens

The effect of mechanical fuel reduction treatments in the wildland-urban interface on the amount and distribution of bark beetle-caused tree mortality 116 KB
Christopher J. Fettig, Joel D. McMillin, John A. Anhold, Shakeeb M. Hamud, Robert R. Borys, and Steven J. Seybold

Citation

Powers, Robert F., tech. editor. 2007. Restoring fire-adapted ecosystems: proceedings of the 2005 national silviculture workshop Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-203, Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. 306 p.