Annual Report 1997

Research, Inventory and Monitoring

Mineral King Risk Reduction Project

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Download: Cover and Cover Caption (930 kb - PDF file)
Executive Summary - Download: Summary and Sections 1 and 2 (1.1 MB - PDF file)	4
1) Project Year Synopsis:
Accomplishments for Each Project and Goals for 1997	5
2) Overview of Project	8
2.1) Objectives	8
2.2) Description - East Fork Project Area	10
3) Project Year 1997 - Download: Section 3 and 3.11 (1.8 MB - PDF)	13
3.1) Vegetation Sampling	15
3.11) Landscape Assessment - Fire and Forest Structure	15
3.12) Red Fir (Pitcher) Plots - Download: Section 3.12 (1.9 MB - PDF)	21
3.13) Fire Effects Monitoring - Download: Section 3.13 (189 KB - PDF)	30
3.14) Prescribed Fire and Heavy Fuel Effects on Mature Giant Sequoia Trees - Download: Section 3.14 (189 KB - PDF)	36
3.15) Red Fir Regeneration and Fire - Download: Section 3.15 (393 KB - PDF)	37
3.16) Fuel Inventory and Monitoring - Download: Section 3.16 (899 KB - PDF)	43
3.17) Fire History - Download: Section 3.17 (1.2 MB - PDF)	56
3.2) Wildlife Sampling - Download: Section 3.2 (752 KB - PDF)	62
3.21) Small Mammal Monitoring	62
3.3) Watershed Sampling - Download: Section 3.3 (533 KB - PDF)	73
3.31) Watershed: Stream Chemistry and Stream Hydrology	74
3.32) Watershed: Macro-Invertebrate Study	79
3.4) Prescribed Fire-Cost Effectiveness Project - Download: Section 3.4 (5 KB - PDF)	81
3.5) Data Coordinator - Download: Section 3.5 (65 KB - PDF)	82
3.6) Other - Download: Section 3.6 (10 KB - PDF)	85
4) Acknowledgments - Download: Section 4 and 5 (30 KB - PDF)	86
5) References	87