R6 Root Disease2 05
PTIPS Activity Report:
Complete one page for each project within PTIPS (insect or pathogen per region) that
received funding last year.
Region: 6
Insect, Pathogen, or Other (example: Dwarf Mistletoe, Spruce Budworm, etc.):
Armillaria ostoyae, Heterobasidion annosum
Status of Project:
__X Continuing (funds are being requested for next fiscal year)
____Continuing (work continues, but no PTIPS dollars are requested)
____Completed (re-measurements will continue at a later time)
____Completed (no re-measurements necessary)
Location: Sisters Ranger District, Deschutes National Forest
Purpose or Objective: This project was originally established to compare silvicutural
treatments in mixed-conifer stands where there were high levels of root disease. The area
burned in 2003. The objectives now include following tree survival after fire as well as
mortality from Armillaria in the regeneration.
Overview Description of Project:
Year plots were established: 1998
Schedule for re-measurement: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2013, 2023
Forest type: Mixed-conifer
Age class: 80-90 for the white fir
Treatment: Commercial thinning and control
Additions or changes: Fuel transects were added in 2004. Vegetation transects
were also added in 2004. Both ends of the vegetation transects were permanently marked
with rebar so changes in vegetation can be tracked through time after the fire. Trees that
were green were checked for beetles. Scorch height, duff consumption, percent of the live
crown scorch, and cambium status (live or dead) on four sides were taken on all live trees
that had any sign of green after the fire. These plots will continue to be monitored past
the original date of 2007 in order to follow the fire and root disease interactions.
FHP Person(s) Leading the Project: Kristen Fields, Greg Filip, Helen Maffei
Cooperators (names and locations): N/A
First Year Funded (Enter N/A if this is a new proposal): FY99
Year Scheduled to End: FY2023 (at least twenty years after fire).
Year Data will be Loaded/Entered into National Database Structure: Tree survival
data and regeneration data will be entered in the winter of 2005-06.
Brief Description of Proposed Accomplishment and Results (either tabular or
narrative): 169 plots in 12 different stands were remeasured after fire in Fy04. In FY05
the plots were remeasured for vegetation cover, tree survival, and seedling counts.
Remeasurement in FY04 included fuel transects, seedling counts, tree survival and
attributes that will help assess tree survival, reestablishing reference points, retagging
burned trees, retaking photo points, and GPSing most plots.
This will allow us to follow tree survival after wildfire on previously established plots
where we have a record of insect and disease activity (beetles, western spruce budworm,
Armillaria and annosus root diseases, and dwarf mistletoe). This will also provide insight
on the number of seedlings that are killed by root disease in the next 20 years.
Sisters Ranger District used the fuel transect data, vegetation transect data, and seedling
transect data in their EIS the salvage sale in 2005. They will be utilizing these plots as
well as establishing additional plots to monitor tree species regeneration levels after
salvage logging.
Documentation Associated with Study:
Petaisto, I., B. Tandy, T. Craigg, L. Heath, H. Maffei, A. Eglitis, G. Filip, S. Fitzgerald,
and L. Ganio. 1999. Thinning, harvesting, and fuel reduction strategies to
improve the forest health of white (grand) fir forests on the Sisters Ranger
District: study plan and pre-harvest data. Unpublished office report. 54p.
Funds Obligated from Beginning to Present Time:
FY99 $1.5K
FY02 $3K
FY03 $4K
FY04 $4.7K
FY05 $4.25K