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Determine optimal targets for reducing fire hazard while minimizing erosion rates by characterizing fuel loading and patchiness and forest floor moisture content at eight sites and then evaluating response of prescribed fire and mastication treatments to simulated overland flow.
Completed
2007
2008
2010
$276,915
Kat McIntyre (KMcIntyre@trpa.gov)
10/30/2017
10/30/2017
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04.01.01.0105 - P019: Developing Fuels Treatments for Balancing Fuel Reduction, Soil Exposure, and Potential for Erosion in the Tahoe Basin
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Funding
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Expected Funding
$276,915
$276,915
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| Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act (Pacific Southwest Research Station) (USFS - PSW) | $276,915 | $276,915 | $0 |
| Grand Total | $276,915 | $276,915 | $0 |
Reported Expenditures
Reported Expenditures
| Total | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act (Pacifi... | $276,915 | $69,229 | $69,229 | $69,229 | $69,228 |
| Grand Total | $276,915 | $69,229 | $69,229 | $69,229 | $69,228 |
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The excess litter and woody fuel that is now on the forest floor and the greater continuity of this organic material may indeed protect the soil, but when this material burns, either through wildfire or prescribed fire, the result is a burn that is much more continuous than historical fires were likely to be (for example, the Angora Fire of 2007), leaving the system more prone to erosion.
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Notes
Notes
| 10/30/2017 1:06 PM | Matt Driscoll | Match Funding: $74,715 | ||
| 08/03/2017 2:54 PM | Kiara Cuerpo-Hadsall | Lead Implementer: Humboldt State University | ||
| 07/23/2017 8:01 PM | Kiara Cuerpo-Hadsall | Objectives: The goal of this research was to understand erosion thresholds in order to determine the optimal levels of surface fuel retention with mechanical mastication and prescribed fire treatments that maximize fire hazard/ fire severity reduction goals while minimizing the threat of erosion and sedimentation. We sought to understand current static conditions and seasonal changes in fuel moisture in order to link fuel moisture with timing of prescribed fire, and the pattern of the resulting burn. Finally we compared our field erosion measurements against predictions made using a popular modeling tool, the Watershed Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) in order to support the use of this tool in the Lake Tahoe Basin. |
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| 07/23/2017 8:01 PM | Kiara Cuerpo-Hadsall | Findings: • Drastic differences in sediment yield were observed between fuels treatments that exposed large patches of bare soil and those that retained fuels on the soil surface. • Masticated treatments characterized by even distributions of surface fuel and limited patches of exposed soil mitigated severe erosion by trapping sediment and increasing infiltration. • In prescribed fire plots, heterogeneous patches of unburned or less severely burned islands of surface fuel were present to mitigate erosion in a similar manner. *** See www.fs.fed.us/PSW/partnerships/tahoescience for additional findings. |
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| 07/23/2017 7:59 PM | Kiara Cuerpo-Hadsall | Management Implications: A better understanding of the complexity of forest fuels will help land managers manage fire in Tahoe Basin forests and inform the understanding of fuels dynamics in other temperate coniferous forests. |
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| 07/23/2017 7:58 PM | Kiara Cuerpo-Hadsall | Publications: Banwell, E. M. 2011. Forest floor characteristics and moisture dynamics in Jeffrey pine-white fir forests of the Lake Tahoe Basin, USA (Doctoral dissertation, Humboldt State University). Harrison, N. M. 2012. Understanding the effects of soil exposure in fuels treatments that balance fuel reduction and erosion control in the Tahoe Basin (Doctoral dissertation, Humboldt State University). |