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Volunteering USDA Forest Service
Daniel Boone
National Forest
1700 Bypass Road
Winchester, KY 40391
Phone: 859-745-3100
FAX: 859-744-1568
Project Objectives
Specific research objectives are to:
1. Characterize the spatial variability in light regime created by single and repeated fires, mediated through the effects of fire on stand structure.
2. Quantify the response of individual seedlings to different light environments, reflecting landscape-scale variability in light environment created by fire treatments. Seedling response will be measured by growth, survival, leaf area, specific leaf mass, and carbon allocation above- and below-ground.
3. Quantify seedling recruitment and the growth and survival of seedlings recruited in response to fire management.
4. Quantify 1-3 above (changes in stand structure, light regime, seedling response and seedling recruitment) on sites of differing qualities (intermediate, sub-xeric, sub-mesic).
5. Use regeneration prediction models to compare the expected regeneration outcomes resulting from the prescribed burning treatments.
6. Quantify the effects of frequent and infrequent prescribed fires on stem damage and mortality, crown health and forest productivity.
7. Quantify fine and woody fuel consumption as a response to site quality, fire treatment and fire intensity.
In addition to the benefits that have accrued from the research components of this project, efforts directed at technology transfer have contributed significantly to the regional dialogue regarding the effectiveness of wildland fire for promoting oak regeneration in upland oak forests.
Last Updated:
January 31, 2012
