Prescription Fire Studies at UNR LOCATIONS

Truckee Ranger District:
Vegetation: Jeffrey Pine, light understory
Soils: Jorge series, Typic cryoboralfs

Treatments	Burn	No Burn
Cut to Length Thinning (slash rows)
Whole-tree thinning
No harvest

South Lake Tahoe:
Vegetation: Mixed conifer, heavy white fir understory
Soils: Cagwin series, mixed Typic Cryopsamments
Treatments were originally set for prescribed fire and mechanical burning; half the plots burned in the Gondola wildfire on 3 July 2002

Treatments	Burn	No Burn
Wildfire

North Lake Tahoe:
Currenlty being determined; will include prescribed fire and mechanical removal.

Wildfire Studies at UNR LOCATIONS

Little Valley Fire (1981)
Crystal Peak Fire (1994)
Martis Fire (2001)
Gondola Fire, Stateline, NV (2002)

Fire Measurements

• Stand mensuration
• C and N inventories

• Soil solution

• Soil N and P flux (resin lysimeters)

• Surface runoff

Ecological and Economic Impacts of Wildfire and Fire Mitigation
McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research Program Proposal
D.W. Johnson, G.C. van Kooten, R.F. Walker, W.W. Miller, J. Englin

Biomass Management in Tahoe Basin Forests: Forest Health, Soil Productivity and Water Quality
McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research Program Proposal
R.F. Walker, D.W. Johnson, W.W. Miller, S.W. Tyler, T.R. Harris, E.G. Smith

Ecosystem and Socio-Economic Impact of Biomass Adaptive Management Strategies in the Lake Tahoe Basin
USDA Forest Service
W.W. Miller, D.W. Johnson, R.F. Walker

Preliminary N budget for the Cottonwood fire
USDA Forest Service
D.W. Johnson

Kings River and Lake Tahoe Basin: Demonstration Sites for Fuel Treatments
Joint Fire Science Program
C.T. Hunsaker (1), K. Purcell (1), D. Kohut (2), Ray Porter (2)
(1) Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service.
(2) Sierra National Forest, USDA Forest Service.