2022 Research Brief
Description
This study measured wildland fuels (shrubs, downed logs, and fine woody debris) eleven years after high-severity fire converted a Sierra mixed-conifer forest to shrub-dominant vegetation. The findings of this study suggest that site preparation and vegetation control is an effective tool to reduce fuel loads and continuity of live and downed woody fuels in early seral environments created by high-severity fire.
Contact
For more information, contact imoore@berkeley.edu, bcollins@berkeley.edu, and retompkins@ucanr.edu.
Additional Information
Moore, I.B., Collins, B.M., Foster, D.E., Tompkins, R.E., Stevens, J.T., and S.L. Stephens. 2021. Variability in wildland fuel patches following high-severity fire and post-fire treatments in the northern Sierra Nevada International Journal of Wildland Fire.