Title:

Lick Creek Demonstration-Research Forest: Data and photo archive of 25-year fire and cutting effects on vegetation and fuels

Author(s):

Lutes, Duncan C.; Hood, Sharon M.; Keyes, Christopher R.; Harrington, Michael G.; Pearson, Dean E.; Ortega, Yvette K.; Sala, Anna

Publication Year:

2020

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Lutes, Duncan C.; Hood, Sharon M.; Keyes, Christopher R.; Harrington, Michael G.; Pearson, Dean E.; Ortega, Yvette K.; Sala, Anna. 2020. Lick Creek Demonstration-Research Forest: Data and photo archive of 25-year fire and cutting effects on vegetation and fuels. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. Updated 20 March 2020. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2020-0008

Abstract:

This data publication contains vegetation, fuels, and repeat photopoint data for the Lick Creek Demonstration-Research Forest Commercial Thinning + prescribed fire and Retention Shelterwood + prescribed fire study areas in western Montana. Pretreatment data were collected in 1991. The Commercial Thinning and Retention Shelterwood project areas are each stand-alone studies located in different areas and data should not be combined. Both studies included three treatments (three units per treatment) and three control units for a total of 12 units per project. Silvicultural treatments were implemented in 1992, followed by prescribed burning in 1993 and 1994, under a fully replicated experimental design involving randomization of treated units and a permanent, systematic plot sampling network. The primary posttreatment data sampling occurred postharvest/preburn, one year postburn, and again in 2005 and 2015, but some additional sampling occurred in other years. In 2016 the Commercial Thinning study received a re-entry harvest and approximately 50% of the basal area was harvested in each treated unit; the control units were not treated.

Photopoints were revisited at various times to show treatment effects and vegetation change. In the treated units in the Commercial Thinning project there were 10 to 12 repeat photographs taken at each photopoint with a maximum lapse of 10 years between photographs. Control units were photographed in 2015 and 2016. In the treated units in the Retention Shelterwood project there were seven to 11 photographs taken at each photopoint with a maximum lapse of 11 years between photographs. Control units were photographed in 2016.

Keywords:

biota; environment; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Inventory, Monitoring, & Analysis; Fire; Botany; Invasive species; Fire effects on environment; Fire ecology; Prescribed fire; Resource inventory; Natural Resource Management & Use; Forest management; Pinus ponderosa; ponderosa pine; Pseudotsuga menziesii; Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir; retention shelterwood harvest; commercial thinning; vegetation; repeat photography; repeat measurements; fire effects; JFSP; Joint Fire Science Program; Montana; Lick Creek Demonstration-Research Forest; Lick Creek Demonstration/Research Forest; Bitterroot National Forest

Related publications:

• Clyatt, Kate A.; Keyes, Christopher R.; Hood, Sharon M. 2017. Long-term effects of fuel treatments on aboveground biomass accumulation in ponderosa pine forests of the northern Rocky Mountains. Forest Ecology and Management. 400: 587-599. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2017.06.021
• Keyes, Christopher R.; Hood, Sharon M.; Sala, Anna; Lutes, Duncan C. Unpublished material. Lick Creek Demonstration-Research Forest: 25-year fire and cutting effects on vegetation and fuels. JFSP Final Report. PROJECT ID: 15-1-07-30. September 2019 (file also available in data download: \Supplements\15-1-07-30_JFSP_final_report.pdf). https://www.firescience.gov/projects/15-1-07-30/project/15-1-07-30_final_report.pdf

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