Fuels Management Strategies for Woody natives to Avoid Promoting Invasives Robin J. Tausch U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
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1 Fuels Management Strategies for Woody natives to Avoid Promoting Invasives Robin J. Tausch U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
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3 Great Basin Study Sites for the Changing Fire Regimes Study Funded by the Joint Fire Sciences Program High Desert North & South Steens (Rick Miller) South Mt Juniper Mt Nevada: Robin Tausch, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Reno, NV Oregon and Idaho: Rick Miller, Oregon State University Utah: Durant McArthur, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Provo, UT Shoshone (Robin Tausch) Lahontan Humboldt High Central High Calcareous Bonneville East Tintic RMRS Research Paper: RMRS-RP-69, 28
4 Percent of Total Percent of Total Plots Comparisons of Community Types Sampled, and Comparison of Relative Abundance of Pre- Settlement (age oldest tree > 14 yrs.) and Post-Settlement (age of oldest tree < 14 yrs.) plots for the Changing Fire Regimes Study in Nevada and Utah. A Joint Fire Sciences Program Funded Project Shoshone Mountains East Tintic Mountains Shoshone Mountains East Tintic Mountains 8 68% 87% 8 78% 79% % 4 22% 21% 2 13% 2 Sagebrush Woodland Tree Community Dominance Type Level >14Yrs <14Yrs Age of the Oldest Tree in the PLot
5 Patterns of Tree Density Increases over time for Three Study Sites for the Changing Fire Regimes Study Shoshone NV Tintic UT Juniper Mt, ID 125 Trees / Ha Decade A Joint Fire Sciences Program Funded Study
6 Trees / Ha Number of Tree Rates Established of Tree establishment by Decade for by Three decade Study for Sites three for sites the Changing Fire Regimes Study 12 Post-settlement Tintic Utah 5 4 Post-settlement Shoshone, Nevada Juniper Mountain, Idaho Post-settlement Pre-settlement 5 4 Pre-settlement 2 Pre-settlement Total 5 4 Total 25 2 Total Decade A Joint Fire Sciences Program Funded Study
7 Decade Phase I Phase II 12 Trees/Ha Shoshonee Mountains, NV East Tintic, UT Juniper Mountain, ID Phase III
8 Total Understory Leaf Bio. (kg) Total Tree Leaf Bio. (kg) Pattern of Understory Decline Over Time With the Increase in Pinyon/Juniper Dominance Tree Dominance = Low Mid High Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase Picture 2 Total Tree 4 Total Under Picture Leaf Bio. Weighted Avg. Age of Pinyon
9 Upper Underdown Canyon, Shoshone Mountains, Nevada, June 1973
10 Upper Underdown Canyon, Shoshone Mountains, Nevada, June 27
11 Percent of Total Distribution of the Study Plots Between Low, Mid, and High Tree Dominance for the Changing Fire Regimes Study Sweetwater Mtns., CA Upper Underdown Canyon, NV 1973 Upper Underdown Canyon, NV Phase I 41% 4% Phase II 49% 47% Shoshone Mountains E. Tintic Mountains 2 Phase III 1% 13% Low Mid High Tree Dominance Level
12 6 5 Phase I Phase II Phase III 4 % of Total NV UT IDsMt IDjMt ORn ORs Study Site
13 Total Understory Leaf Biomass (kg/.1 ha plot) Underdown 1973 Underdown Low Tree High Tree Slope Difference P < Tree Needle Biomass (kg/.1 ha plot) Underdown Canyon, Shoshone Mountains, NV Pre-Treatment Data (4 Plots of.1 ha)
14 Total One-Hour Live Fuels (kg/ha) Pattern of Increase in One-Hour Live Fuels With Increasing Relative Tree Dominance in the Underdown Canyon Demonstraton Area, Shoshone Mountains, NV Underdown Canyon Demonstration Area Fuels 3 Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase Low Elevation Plots 5 Mid Elevation Plots High Elevation Plots Relative Tree Percent Cover
15 Juniper Burning Marking Corral Prescribed Fire, August 26
16 Marking Corral Prescribed Fire, Two Years Old, June 28
17 Cathedral Burn, White Pine Range, NV, Mid-July 27. Picture Sep. 27
18 Cathedral Burn, White Pine Range, Nevada, Mid-June, 28 (Burned Mid-July 27)
19 Cheatgrass and Tumble Mustard Dominance of a Phase III, Totally Tree Dominated Site Four Years After Wildfire Expansion Woodlands on the East Side of Mount Como, Pine Nut Mountains, Nevada
20 Total One-Hour Live Fuels (kg/ha) Pattern of Increase in One-Hour Live Fuels With Increasing Relative Tree Dominance in the Underdown Canyon Demonstraton Area, Shoshone Mountains, NV Underdown Canyon Demonstration Area Fuels 3 Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase Low Elevation Plots 5 Mid Elevation Plots High Elevation Plots Relative Tree Percent Cover
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