Title:

Soil temperatures under ponderosa pines, Jeffrey pines, sugar pines and giant sequoias during prescribed burns

Author(s):

Burke, Gloria M.; Sackett, Stephen S.; Haase, Sally M.; Weise, David R.

Publication Year:

2024

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Burke, Gloria M.; Sackett, Stephen S.; Haase, Sally M.; Weise, David R. 2024. Soil temperatures under ponderosa pines, Jeffrey pines, sugar pines and giant sequoias during prescribed burns. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2024-0079

Abstract:

In 1988, a study was initiated to measure soil temperatures of mature sugar pines and giant sequoias in Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Parks, California, during prescribed burns. The purpose was to investigate tree mortality observed after fire was reintroduced into sequoia groves. This work expanded to other National Park Service and USDA Forest Service locations in California to measure soil temperatures under large ponderosa and Jeffrey pines. These additional sites include Yosemite National Park, Eldorado National Forest, Blacks Mountain Experimental Forest in Lassen National Forest, San Bernardino National Forest, and Toiyabe National Forest. This data publication contains the hourly temperatures of heated soil measured with Type K sheathed thermocouples at various depths below the O2-A1 soil subhorizon interface during prescribed burns between 1988 and 2003. Also included are the linear depths of organic material (forest floor) above the temperature probe site pre-fire and the amount of fuel consumption measured post-fire; fuel moisture content (dry weight basis) of the litter, fermentation, and humus layers measured pre-fire; and soil moisture content (dry weight basis) measured pre- and post-fire at the depth of the thermocouples. The soil moisture, fuel moisture and forest floor depth data are linked to the temperature data by the SOIL_ID variable. The dates of collection for the other measurements corresponds to the date that soil temperature measurement commenced.

Keywords:

biota; Fire; Fire ecology; Prescribed fire; Fire effects on environment; Environment and People; Archaeology, anthropology; soil heating; soil temperatures; thermocouples; obsidian; California; Sequoia National Park; Yosemite National Park; Lassen National Park; Eldorado National Forest; Toiyabe National Forest; San Bernardino National Forest; Blacks Mountain Experimental Forest

Related publications:

• Haase, Sally M.; Sackett, Stephen S. 1998. Effects of prescribed fire in giant sequoia-mixed conifer stands in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/43412 In: Pruden, Teresa L. (ed.); Brennan, Leonard A. (ed.). 1998. Fire in ecosystem management: shifting the paradigm from suppression to prescription. Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference Proceedings. No. 20: 236-243. Tallahassee, FL: Tall Timbers Research Station.
• Sackett, Stephen S.; Haase, Sally M.; Burke, Gloria M. 1992. Soil temperatures related to prescribed burning in ponderosa pine stands in Yosemite Valley that include California black oak. In: Ffolliott, Peter F. (tech. coord.); Gottfried, Gerald J. (tech. coord.); Bennett, Duane A. (tech. coord.); Hernandez C., Victor Manuel (tech. coord.); Ortega-Rubio, Alfredo (tech. coord.); Hamre, R.H. (tech. coord.). 1992. Ecology and management of oak and associated woodlands: Perspectives in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. General Technical Report. RM-GTR-218. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research . April 27-30; Sierra Vista, AZ; 224 p. https://doi.org/10.2737/RM-GTR-218

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