scholarly journals Improving the use of early timber inventories in reconstructing historical dry forests and fire in the western United States: Comment

Ecosphere ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. e02232 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Keala Hagmann ◽  
Jens T. Stevens ◽  
Jamie M. Lydersen ◽  
Brandon M. Collins ◽  
John J. Battles ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Dry Forests

scholarly journals Unsupported inferences of high-severity fire in historical dry forests of the western United States: response to Williams and Baker

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 825-830 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Z. Fulé ◽  
Thomas W. Swetnam ◽  
Peter M. Brown ◽  
Donald A. Falk ◽  
David L. Peterson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Dry Forests ◽  
High Severity

Simulating fuel treatment effects in dry forests of the western United States: testing the principles of a fire-safe forest

2011 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 1018-1030 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morris C. Johnson ◽  
Maureen C. Kennedy ◽  
David L. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Treatment Effects ◽  
Fire Hazard ◽  
Fire Behavior ◽  
Post Treatment ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Crown Fire ◽  
Fuel Treatments ◽  
Dry Forests ◽  
Fuel Treatment

We used the Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FFE-FVS) to simulate fuel treatment effects on 45 162 stands in low- to midelevation dry forests (e.g., ponderosa pine ( Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex. P. & C. Laws.) and Douglas-fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) of the western United States. We evaluated treatment effects on predicted post-treatment fire behavior (fire type) and fire hazard (torching index). FFE-FVS predicts that thinning and surface fuel treatments reduced crown fire behavior relative to no treatment; a large proportion of stands were predicted to transition from active crown fire pre-treatment to surface fire post-treatment. Intense thinning treatments (125 and 250 residual trees·ha–1) were predicted to be more effective than light thinning treatments (500 and 750 residual trees·ha–1). Prescribed fire was predicted to be the most effective surface fuel treatment, whereas FFE-FVS predicted no difference between no surface fuel treatment and extraction of fuels. This inability to discriminate the effects of certain fuel treatments illuminates the consequence of a documented limitation in how FFE-FVS incorporates fuel models and we suggest improvements. The concurrence of results from modeling and empirical studies provides quantitative support for “fire-safe” principles of forest fuel reduction (sensu Agee and Skinner 2005. For. Ecol. Manag. 211: 83–96).

scholarly journals Improving the use of early timber inventories in reconstructing historical dry forests and fire in the western United States: Reply

Ecosphere ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. e02325 ◽  
Author(s):  
William L. Baker ◽  
Chad T. Hanson ◽  
Mark A. Williams
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Dry Forests

scholarly journals Forest structure and fire hazard in dry forests of the Western United States

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Peterson ◽  
Morris C. Johnson ◽  
James K. Agee ◽  
Theresa B. Jain ◽  
Donald McKenzie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Forest Structure ◽  
Fire Hazard ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Dry Forests
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