Annual Report 1996

Research, Inventory and Monitoring

Mineral King Risk Reduction Project

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	Page
Cover (1 MB)
Section 1 (2 MB)
Executive Summary	3
I) Project Year Synopsis:
Accomplishments for Each Project and Goals for 1997	4
II) Overview of Project	7
A) Objectives	7
B) Description - East Fork Project Area	9
Section 2 (1.8 MB)
III) Project Year 1996	13
A) Vegetation Sampling	15
1) Fire Effects Plots	15
2) Giant Sequoia Fire Scars and Fuel Loading	19
3) Natural Resource Inventory (NRI)	20
4) Landscape Assessment - Fire and Forest Structure	21
5) Remote Sensing - Analysis of Red Fir Forest	25
B) Wildlife Sampling	26
1) Small Mammal Monitoring	26
2) Bark Foraging Birds	29
C) Watershed Sampling	32
1) Watershed: Stream Chemistry and Stream Hydrology	32
2) Watershed: Macro-Invertebrate Study	38
Section 3 (2.4 MB)
D) Fuels Inventory and Monitoring	41
E) Remote Sensing: Fuel Loading and Vegetation Classification	46
F) Fire History	51
G) Resampling of the Pitcher Plots	55
H) Prescribed Fire - Cost Effectiveness Project	58
I) Data Coordinator	59
Section 4 (346 KB)
IV) Acknowledgements	60
V) References	60
VI) Appendix	63