Fuels guide for sagebrush and pinyon-juniper treatments : 10 years post-treatment

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Alternative: Fuels guide for sagebrush and pinyon juniper treatments, ten years post-treatment

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Series: BLM technical note, 451

By

Wozniak, Samuel S.

Strand, Eva K.
United States. Bureau of Land Management.
Joint Fire Science Program (U.S.)
National Interagency Fire Center (U.S.)
University of Idaho.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Boise, Idaho, U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, 2019

Notes

Increased woody plant dominance and degraded understory vegetation are important issues on rangelands in the Intermountain West. Land managers implement woody plant reduction treatments of sagebrush (Artemisia spp.), juniper (Juniperus spp.), and pinyon pine (Pinus spp.) to increase understory diversity and cover, restore wildlife habitat, increase forage, improve ecosystem functions, and reduce or manipulate fuels to increase ecosystem resilience to fire and resistance to invasive annual grasses...Using data collected as part of the Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project (SageSTEP), this guide summarizes fuel loads, vegetation cover by functional group, and shrub and tree stem density 10 years after sagebrush and pinyon-juniper reduction treatments. The data was collected at 16 study sites in Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, and Utah, and is summarized by treatment type, region, and groups or woodland development phases based on pre-treatment vegetation.

"This publication is contribution number 127 by the Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project (SageSTEP). It was supported by funds from the U.S. Joint Fire Science Program, Bureau of Land Management, and National Interagency Fire Center"--Page i.

"BLM/OC/ST-19/002+9270."

Subjects

Great Basin , Junipers , Pinyon pines , Prescribed burning , Restoration ecology , Sagebrush , Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project , Steppe ecology , United States

Call Number

QL84.2 .L35 no.451

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 1122796151