Guide for quantifying post-treatment fuels in the sagebrush steppe and juniper woodlands of the Great Basin
By: Andrea Bourne [i.e. Andrea Stebleton] and Stephen C. Bunting
Contributors: Bunting, Stephen C., author; United States. Bureau of Land Management; University of Idaho. College of Natural Resources; Joint Fire Science Program (U.S.)
Series: Technical note -- 437; Technical note (United States. Bureau of Land Management) -- 437.
Publisher: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Denver, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
Subjects: Prescribed burning; Forest fire forecasting; Sagebrush; Steppe ecology; Restoration ecology; Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project
Description: Invasive species and woodland encroachment have caused extensive changes in the fire regimes of sagebrush steppe over the past 150 years. Land managers and resource specialists of the Great Basin are increasingly required to implement vegetation treatments to maintain habitat, reduce fire risk and restore landscapes to a more desirable state. Often it is difficult to measure treatment effectiveness because gathering pre- and post-treatment data is time-consuming and costly. In two years of post-treatment sampling across six Great Basin states, researchers from the Sagebrush Steppe Treatment and Evaluation Project (SageSTEP) measured the vegetation response to prescribed fire, tree mastication and cutting, shrub mowing, and herbicide application. Treated plots were compared to untreated control plots.
Notes: "University of Idaho, College of Natural Resources ; Joint Fire Science Program ; SageSTEP Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project."

"BLM/ID/PT-11/003+2824."

"This is contribution number 11 of the Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project (SageSTEP), supported by funds from the U.S. Joint Fire Science Program. This is contribution number 1058 of the Idaho Forest, Wildlife, and Range Experiment Station, University of Idaho, Moscow."--Acknowledgements [i.e. Acknowledgments].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 12-15).