Abstract
Powers, Robert F., tech. editor. 2007.
Restoring fire-adapted ecosystems: proceedings of the 2005 national
silviculture workshop. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-203. Albany, CA:
Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department
of Agriculture. 306 p.
Many federal forests are at risk to catastrophic wildfire owing to past
management practices and policies. Mangers of these forests face the
immense challenge of making their forests resilient to wildfire, and the
problem is complicated by the specter of climate change that may affect
wild fire frequency and intensity. Some of the Nationʼs leading scientists
and practitioners present approaches in tackling the problem.
Key words: wildfire, fuel management, thinning, climate change, fire
history, resilience
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Restoring Fire-Adapted Ecosystems:
Proceedings of the 2005
National Silviculture Workshop
June 6-10, 2005
Robert F. Powers, Technical Editor
Tahoe City, California
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Robert F. Powers and F. Michael Landram
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Keynote Address
The role of silviculture in restoring fire-adapted ecosystems
James K. Agee
HISTORICAL AND FUTURE TRENDS
Forest changes since Euro-American settlement and ecosystem restoration in the
Lake Tahoe Basin, USA
Alan H. Taylor
21 Silviculture and forest management under a rapidly changing climate
Carl N. Skinner
33 MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES
35 Fuels planning: science synthesis and integration
Rachel White and Sarah McCaffrey
41 Stewardship and fireshed assessment: a process for designing a landscape fuel
treatment strategy
Bernhard Bahro, Klaus H. Barber, Joseph W. Sherlock, and Donald A. Yasuda
55 Integrating stand density management with fuel reduction
Joseph W. Sherlock
67 Reintroducing fire to the oak forests of Pennsylvania: response of striped maple
Patrick H. Brose, Gary W. Miller, and Kurt W. Gottschalksheppa
79 Reintroducing fire in regenerated dry forests following stand-replacing wildfire
David W. Peterson, Paul F. Hessburg, Brion Salter, Kevin M. James, Matthew C.
Dahlgreen, and John A. Barnes
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Restoring fire-adapted forested ecosystems—research in longleaf pine on the
Kisatchie National Forest
James D. Haywood
SILVICULTURAL OPTIONS
Silviculture for the 21st century—objective and subjective standards to guide
successful practice
James M. Guldin and Russell T. Graham
Free selection: a silvicultural option
Russell T. Graham, Theresa B. Jain, and Jonathan Sandquist
Landscape silviculture for late-successional reserve management
S. Hummell and R.J. Barbour
SDI-Flex: a new technique of allocating growing stock for developing treatment prescriptions in uneven-aged stands
Wayne D. Shepperd
Gap-based silviculture in a Sierran mixed conifer forest: effects of gap size on
early survival and 7-year seedling growth
Robert A. York, John J. Battles, and Robert C. Heald
Effects of alternative treatments on canopy fuel characteristics in five conifer
stands
Joe H. Scott and Elizabeth D. Reinhardt
RISKS AND IMPACTS
The relation between tree burn severity and forest structure in the Rocky
Mountains
Theresa B. Jain and Russell T. Graham
Fire performance in traditional silvicultural and fire and fire surrogate treatments in Sierran mixed-conifer forests: a brief summary
Jason J. Moghaddas and Scott L. Stephens
Delayed conifer tree mortality following fire in California
Sharon M. Hood, Sheri L. Smith, and Daniel R. Cluck
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Effects of fuel reduction treatments on breeding birds in a southern
Appalachian upland hardwood forest
Aimee L. Tomcho, Cathryn H. Greenburg, J. Drew Lanham, Thomas A.
Waldrop, Joseph Tomcho, and Dean Simon
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POSTER ABSTRACTS
Riparian and upland vegetation on the Kings River Experimental Watershed,
Sierra Nevada, California
Christopher R. Dolanc and Carolyn T. Hunsaker
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Prescribed burning ineffective for improving turkey habitat on a recently regenerated mesic site in the southern Appalachian Mountains
W. Henry McNab, Ted M. Oprean III, and Erik C. Berg
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Putting out fire with gasoline: pitfalls in the silvicultural treatment of
canopy fuels
Christopher R. Keyes and J. Morgan Varner
Thinning and underburning effects on ground fuels in Jeffrey pine
R.F. Walker, R.M. Fecko, W.B. Frederick, J.D. Murphy, D.W. Johnson,
and W.W. Miller
Thinning and underburning effects on productivity and mensurational
characteristics of Jeffrey pine
R.M. Fecko, R.F. Walker, W.B. Frederick, W.W. Miller, and D.W.
Johnson
Effect of burn residue proximity on growth of 5 planted mixed conifer
species after 6 years
Robert A. York and Robert C. Heald
Soil responses to the fire and fire surrogate study in the Sierra Nevada
Emily E.Y. Moghaddas and Scott L. Stephens
The effect of mechanical fuel reduction treatments in the wildland-urban
interface on the amount and distribution of bark beetle-caused tree
mortality
Christopher J. Fettig, Joel D. McMillin, John A. Anhold, Shakeeb M.
Hamud, Robert R. Borys, and Steven J. Seybold
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