2017 Research Brief
Description
During normal levels of beetle activity, fuel treatment reductions either cause no trees to die from beetles or just a few. If tree deaths occur, they reinforce fuel hazard reduction and forest restoration goals.
Contact
Kate Wilkin, kate.wilkin@berkeley.edu
Additional Information
Stark, DT, DL Wood, AJ Storer, and SL Stephens. 2013. Prescribed fire and mechanical thinning effects on bark beetle caused tree mortality in a mid-elevation Sierran mixed-conifer forest. Forest Ecology and Management 306:61-67.