Annual Report 1998

Research, Inventory and Monitoring

Mineral King Risk Reduction Project

The Executive Summary of the 1998 Mineral King Risk Reduction Project Annual Report is available in HTML format. The entire report is available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. To view these files you will need a free Acrobat Reader. If you do not have one, you can download it from Adobe here.

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Download: Cover and Cover Caption (148 kb - PDF file)
Executive Summary - Download: Summary and Sections 1 and 2 (1.4 MB - PDF file)	4
1) Project Year Synopsis:
Accomplishments for Each Project and Goals for 1998	5
2) Overview of Project	8
2.1) Objectives	8
2.2) Description - East Fork Project Area	10
3) Project Year 1998 - Download: Section 3 and 3.11 (1.28 MB - PDF)	13
3.1) Vegetation Sampling	15
3.11) Landscape Assessment - Fire and Forest Structure by Kurt Menning	15
3.12) Evaluation of Multispectral Data for the Determination of Fuel Loads in Forested Environments - Download: Section 3.12 (4 kb - PDF) by William Miller and Mitchell Brookins	22
3.13) Fire Effects Monitoring - Download: Section 3.13 (1.2 MB - PDF) by MaryBeth Keifer	23
3.14) Prescribed Fire and Heavy Fuel Effects on Mature Giant Sequoia Trees - Download: Section 3.14 (4 kb - PDF) by MaryBeth Keifer	35
3.15) Red Fir Regeneration and Fire - Download: Section 3.15 (489 kb - PDF) by David Newburn	36
3.16) Fuel Inventory and Monitoring - Download: Section 3.16 (1.34 MB - PDF) by Corky Conover	40
3.17) Fire History - Download: Section 3.17 (1.18 MB - PDF) by Anthony Caprio	48
3.2) Wildlife Sampling - Download: Section 3.2 (984 kb - PDF)	57
3.21) Small Mammal Monitoring by Harold Werner	57
3.3) Watershed Sampling - Download: Section 3.3 (313 kb - PDF) by Claudette Moore and Ian Chan	69
- Watershed: Stream Chemistry and Stream Hydrology - Claudette Moore and Jon Keeley
- Watershed: Macro-Invertebrate Study - Ian Chan, Don Erman and Nancy Erman
3.4) Prescribed Fire-Cost Effectiveness Project - Download: Section 3.4 (43 kb - PDF) by Phil Omi and Douglas Rideout	82
3.5) Other - Download: Section 3.5 (7 kb - PDF)	88
4) Acknowledgments - Download: Section 4 (3 kb - PDF)	89