Title:

Ohio Hills Fire and Fire Surrogate Study: vegetation, fuels, and fire behavior

Author(s):

Hutchinson, Todd F.; Dickinson, Matthew B.

Publication Year:

2024

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Hutchinson, Todd F.; Dickinson, Matthew B. 2024. Ohio Hills Fire and Fire Surrogate Study: vegetation, fuels, and fire behavior. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2023-0059

Abstract:

This data publication contains summarized vegetation, fuels, and fire behavior data for the Ohio Hills site of the National Fire and Fire Surrogates Study. This study is in the Southern Unglaciated Allegheny Plateau Section in southeastern Ohio. Treatments at three study sites (blocks) were control (Cont, no active treatment), mechanical partial harvest (Mech), repeated prescribed fires (Fire), and the combination of mechanical partial harvest and repeated prescribed fires (Mech + Fire). For vegetation (overstory, midstory, large tree regeneration, groundlayer), data include pre-treatment values in 2000 as well as post-treatment values in 2017 (groundlayer) and 2021 (overstory, midstory, large tree regeneration). Post-treatment fuels data were collected in 2016. Fire behavior estimates in burn units were averaged across four prescribed fires in 2001, 2005, 2010, and 2016.

Keywords:

biota; environment; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Plant ecology; Fire; Fire ecology; Prescribed fire; Natural Resource Management & Use; Forest management; Restoration; forest management; fire behavior; prescribed fire; mesophication; diversity; regeneration; topography; Quercus; fuels; Joint Fire Science Program; JFSP; Ohio; Vinton Furnace State Forest; Zaleski State Forest; Tar Hollow State Forest

Related publications:

• Hutchinson, Todd F.; Adams, Bryce T.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Heckle, Maryjane; Royo, Alejandro A.; Thomas-Van Gundy, Melissa. unknown. Sustaining eastern oak forests: synergistic effects of fire and topography on vegetation and fuels. Ecological Applications. [In press].
• Hutchinson, Todd F.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Rebbeck, Joanne. 2021. Feedbacks between fuels, fire behavior, and vegetation: fire severity alters successional pathways during oak forest restoration. JFSP Final Report. JFSP PROJECT ID: 15-1-07-20. (also available in data publication download: \Supplements\15-1-07-20_JFSP_final_report.pdf). https://www.firescience.gov/projects/15-1-07-20/project/15-1-07-20_final_report.pdf

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