Supplement to the Fire and Fire Surrogate Study Interdisciplinary and Multi-Site Analysis. Joint Fire Science Program Project 04-S-02 Final Report (October 2004-September 2007)

摘要

The national Fire and Fire Surrogate Study (FFS) was designed to develop and provide managers with better information on the consequences of alternative fuel reduction treatments in forest ecosystems. The study was initiated in early March 2000 with support by the USDA/USDI Joint Fire Science Program, and is a series of experiments that evaluate the consequences of prescribed fire and fuel reduction surrogates (cutting and mechanical treatments) for fuel reduction and forest restoration. The FFS study includes 13 separate sites nationwide (11 funded by the JFSP, 2 by the National Fire Plan, and 1 started with funding from the USDA NRI program). All sites have a nearly identical study design, featuring at least three replications of four treatments: unmanipulated control, prescribed fire, thinning or some mechanical fuel treatment, and the combination of thin + fire. A total of 82 key variables was measured both pre- and post-treatment within large plots (approximately 10 ha) at each of these sites in an effort to capture an interdisciplinary whole system response to treatment.