Annual Fire Report 2000

Research, Inventory and Monitoring

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Cover - Download: Cover and Cover Caption (97 kb - PDF file)
Contents and Executive Summary - Download: Contents, Summary and Sections 1 and 2 (616 kb - PDF file)	4
1) Synopsis: Year 2000 Projects	5
2) Park Burn Program	8
2.1) Objectives	8
2.2) Park Area Description	11
3) Fire Year 2000 - Download: Section 3 (7 kb - PDF)	15
Accomplishments for Each Project and Goals for 2000
4) Project Year 2000	16
4.1) Vegetation Sampling	16
4.11) Landscape Assessment - Fire and Forest Structure - Download: Section 4.11 (489 kb - PDF) by Kurt Menning	16
4.12) Red Fir Plots - Download: Section 4.12 (736 kb - PDF) by Anthony C. Caprio	21
4.13) Fire Effects Monitoring - Download: Section 4.13 (68 kb - PDF) by MaryBeth Keifer	27
4.14) Fuel Inventory and Monitoring - Download: Section 4.14 (275 kb - PDF) by Corky Conover	45
4.15) Fire History - Download: Section 4.15 (1 MB - PDF) by Anthony Caprio	51
4.16) Red Fir Forest Dynamics: The Interaction of Fine-Scale Disturbance and Prescribed Fire - Download: Section 4.16 (24 kb - PDF) by John Battles and David Newburn	66
4.17) The Southern Sierra Repeat Photography Project - Download: Section 4.17 (6 kb - PDF) by Monica Bueno, Jon Keeley, and Nate Stephenson	70
4.18) Biodiversity and Invasives Study: Fire and Community Susceptibility to Invasive Plants - Download: Section 4.18 (8 kb - PDF) by Jon Keeley, Daniel Lubin, and Sarah Hamman	71
4.19) Developing a Landscape-Scale Framework for Interagency Wildland Fuel Management Planning - Download: Section 4.19 (222 kb - PDF) by Pat Lineback	72
4.20) Vegetation Mapping Initiative - Download: Section 4.20 (12 kb - PDF) by Sylvia Haultain>	77
4.21) Evaluation of Cambium and Soil Heating and Other Fire Effects During Prescribed Fire in Giant Sequoia/Mixed Conifer Stands - Download: Section 4.21 (20 kb - PDF) by Sally M. Haase	88
4.2) Wildlife - Download: Section 4.2 (53 kb - PDF) by Harold Werner	110
4.3) Watershed Studies	93
4.31) Watershed Sampling - Download: Section 4.3 (7 kb - PDF) by Claudette Moore	93
4.32) The Effects of Prescribed Burning on Stream Water Chemistry at Different Spatial and Temporal Scales - Download: Section 4.3 (23 kb - PDF) by Andi Heard and John Stednick	95
4.4) Fire Information Cache - The Park's Fire & Resources Web Page - Download: Section 4.4 (20 kb - PDF) by Anthony C. Caprio	98
4.5) An Analytical Approach for Assessing Cost-Effectiveness of Landscape Prescribed Fires (reprint) - Download: Section 4.5 (27 kb - PDF) by Philip N. Omi, Douglas B. Rideout and Stephen J. Botti	99
4.6) Other - Download: Section 4.6 (11 kb - PDF) Joint Fire Science Projects - "Fire and Fire Surrogates" & "Cheatgrass"	105