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Title:
Fuels and fire behavior from masticated treatments burned in laboratory and field experiments in thinned 30-year old pine plantations, Idaho
Author(s):
Morgan, Penelope; Lyon, Zachary D.; Sparks, Aaron M.; Smith, Alistair M. S.; Keefe, Robert F.
Publication Year:
2020
How to Cite:
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Morgan, Penelope; Lyon, Zachary D.; Sparks, Aaron M.; Smith, Alistair M. S.; Keefe, Robert F. 2020. Fuels and fire behavior from masticated treatments burned in laboratory and field experiments in thinned 30-year old pine plantations, Idaho. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2020-0037
Abstract:
This data publication includes tree characteristics before and after mastication treatments, fuelbed characteristics, and fire behavior observed in both field and laboratory burning experiments at the West Hatter Unit of the University of Idaho Experimental Forest. This study included three ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) dominated stands, each planted in 1982 (making them approximately 30-years old) after clearcutting and broadcast burning left few residual large logs and stumps. Both fine and coarse mastification were applied to each of these stands in June 2014. Control and treatment data were collected from December 2013 through December 2017.

Keywords:
biota; environment; Fire; Fire ecology; Fire suppression, pre-suppression; Natural Resource Management & Use; Forest management; fire radiative flux density; fire radiative energy density; fire behavior; fire severity; post-fire impacts; resin ducts; mountain pine beetle; tree density; crown base height; diameter; flame length; rate of spread; consumption; fuelbeds; mastication; Joint Fire Science Program; JFSP; Idaho; Moscow; University of Idaho Experimental Forest; University of Idaho; United States
Related publications:
  • Sparks, Aaron M.; Smith, Alistair M. S.; Talhelm, Alan F.; Kolden, Crystal A.; Yedinak, Kara M.; Johnson, Daniel M. 2017. Impacts of fire radiative flux on mature Pinus ponderosa growth and vulnerability to secondary mortality agents. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 26(1): 95-106. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF16139
  • Lyon, Zachary D.; Morgan, Penelope; Stevens-Rumann, Camille S.; Sparks, Aaron M.; Keefe, Robert F.; Smith, Alistair M. S. 2018. Fire behaviour in masticated forest fuels: lab and prescribed fire experiments. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 27(4): 280-292. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF17145
  • Morgan, Penelope; Smith, Alistair M. S.; Keefe, Robert F. Unpublished material. Masticated fuels and fire behavior in forests of the Interior West. Joint Fire Science Program Final Report. Project ID: 13-1-05-7. Sept 2017 (Revised May 2018). https://www.firescience.gov/projects/13-1-05-7/project/13-1-05-7_final_report.pdf
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