Dry forests of the northeastern Cascades Fire and Fire Surrogate Project site, Mission Creek, Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest
By: James K. Agee and John F. Lehmkuhl, compilers.
Contributors: Agee, James K.; Lehmkuhl, John F.; Pacific Northwest Research Station (Portland, Or.)
Series: Research paper PNW -- RP-577; Research paper PNW -- 577.
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Forest management -- Washington (State) -- Okanogan National Forest; Forest management -- Washington (State) -- Wenatchee National Forest
Description: The Fire and Fire Surrogate (FFS) project is a large long-term metastudy established to assess the effectiveness and ecological impacts of burning and fire "surrogates" such as cuttings and mechanical fuel treatments that are used instead of fire, or in combination with fire, to restore dry forests. One of the 13 national FFS sites is the Northeastern Cascades site at Mission Creek on the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. The study area includes 12 forested stands that encompass a representative range of dry forest conditions in the northeastern Cascade Range. We describe site histories and environmental settings, experimental design, field methods, and quantify the pretreatment composition and structure of vegetation, fuels, soils and soil biota, entomology and pathology, birds, and small mammals that occurred during the 2000 and 2001 field seasons. We also describe the implementation of thinning treatments completed during 2003 and spring burning treatments done during 2004 and 2006.
Notes: "January, 2009."

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