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Overview
Basics
Basics
Complete a Before-After-Control-Impact (BACI) study of effects of forest fuel treatments on vegetation structure and fuel loads, small mammals, birds, and invertebrates at 7 sites in the Tahoe Basin.
Completed
2007
2007
2011
$297,122
Pat Manley (pmanley@fs.fed.us)
10/27/2017
10/27/2017
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EIP Details
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04.01.01.0072 - P017: Upland Fuel Reduction Treatments in the Lake Tahoe Basin: Forest Restoration Effectiveness
Performance Measures
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Funding
Expected Funding
Expected Funding
$297,122
$297,122
$0
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| Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act (Pacific Southwest Research Station) (USFS - PSW) | $297,122 | $297,122 | $0 |
| Grand Total | $297,122 | $297,122 | $0 |
Reported Expenditures
Reported Expenditures
| Total | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act (Pacifi... | $297,122 | $59,424 | $59,425 | $59,424 | $59,425 | $59,424 |
| Grand Total | $297,122 | $59,424 | $59,425 | $59,424 | $59,425 | $59,424 |
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The Lake Tahoe basin is ecologically unique in many respects, resulting in the need for basin-specific information on forest conditions and responses to treatments.
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Notes
Notes
| 10/27/2017 11:14 AM | Matt Driscoll | Completion Year: 2011 | ||
| 10/27/2017 11:06 AM | Matt Driscoll | Match Funding: $147,600 | ||
| 07/21/2017 9:21 AM | Kiara Cuerpo-Hadsall | Objectives: With this study, we aimed to understand the changes to plant and animal communities in response to conventional fuels reductions treatments in the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit (LTBMU). Specifically, our objectives were to: • Describe changes in forest structure following hand and mechanical treatments. • Predict changes in fire behavior following fuel treatments. • Understand how fuels treatments may change community composition and abundance of small mammals, birds, and ants. • Understanding how these elements respond to treatments is essential for addressing key management questions identified in the Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendment (SNFPA). The data for this project has been collected across a range of treatment types and intensities, in both west shore mixed conifer and east shore Jeffrey pine/red fir forests. The resulting dataset represents the first comprehensive monitoring effort in the Lake Tahoe Basin specifically designed to examine changes in plant and animal communities and fuel loading in response to fuel management activities. |
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| 07/21/2017 9:20 AM | Kiara Cuerpo-Hadsall | Findings: • Mechanical fuels reduction treatments resulted in more open forest with fewer smaller diameter trees. • Treatments successfully reduced both proportion of area killed and large tree mortality under modeled fire conditions. • There is little evidence to support the removal of large proportions of basal area for fuel reduction. *** See www.fs.fed.us/PSW/partnerships/tahoescience for additional findings. |
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| 07/21/2017 9:19 AM | Kiara Cuerpo-Hadsall | Management Implications: • Our results indicate that implementation of conventional fuels reduction treatments is consistent with maintenance of bird, small mammal, and ant community diversity over short time frames. • Reduction of surface fuels resulted in greater tree resiliency to future wildfires over the lifespan of these treatments. • While wildlife communities were largely unchanged, we observed substantial changes in abundance of several species following treatments, as well as a slight increase in overall mammal abundance and a slight decline in bird abundance. |
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| 07/21/2017 9:18 AM | Kiara Cuerpo-Hadsall | Publications: www.fs.fed.us/PSW/partnerships/tahoescience |