Restoring fire-adapted ecosystems: proceedings of the 2005 national silviculture workshop

Abstract

Many federal forests are at risk to catastrophic wild fire owing to past management practices and policies. Mangers of these forests face the immense challenge of making their forests resilient to wild fire, and the problem is complicated by the specter of climate change that may affect wild fire frequency and intensity. Some of the Nation’s leading scientists and practitioner present approaches in tackling the problem.

Titles contained within Restoring fire-adapted ecosystems: proceedings of the 2005 national silviculture workshop

• Keynote address: the role of silviculture in restoring fire-adapted ecosystems
• Forest changes since Euro-American settlement and ecosystem restoration in the Lake Tahoe Basin, USA
• Silviculture and forest management under a rapidly changing climate
• Fuels planning: science synthesis and integration
• Stewardship and fireshed assessment: a process for designing a landscape fuel treatment strategy.
• Integrating stand density management with fuel reduction
• Reintroducing fire to the oak forests of Pennsylvania: response of striped maple
• Reintroducing fire in regenerated dry forests following stand-replacing wildfire.
• Restoring fire-adapted forested ecosystems—research in longleaf pine on the Kisatchie National Forest.
• Silviculture for the 21st century--objective and subjective standards to guide successful practice
• Free selection: a silvicultural option
• Landscape silviculture for late-successional reserve management
• SDI-Flex: a new technique of allocating growing stock for developing treatment prescriptions in uneven-aged forest stands
• Gap-based silviculture in a sierran mixed-conifer forest: effects of gap size on early survival and 7-year seedling growth
• Effects of alternative treatments on canopy fuel characteristics in five conifer stands
• The relation between tree burn severity and forest structure in the Rocky Mountains
• Fire performance in traditional silvicultural and fire and fire surrogate treatments in Sierran mixed-conifer forests: a brief summary
• Delayed conifer tree mortality following fire in California
• Effects of fuel reduction treatments on breeding birds in a Southern Appalachian upland hardwood forest
• Riparian and upland vegetation on the Kings River Experimental Watershed, Sierra Nevada, California
• Prescribed burning ineffective for improving turkey habitat on a recently regenerated mesic site in southern Appalachian Mountains
• Putting out fire with gasoline: pitfalls in the silvicultural treatment of canopy fuels
• Thinning and underburning effects on ground fuels in Jeffrey pine
• Thinning and underburning effects on productivity and mensurational characteristics of Jeffrey Pine
• Effect of burn residue proximity on growth of 5 planted mixed-conifer species after 6 years
• Soil responses to the fire and fire surrogate study in the Sierra Nevada
• The effect of mechanical fuel reduction treatments in the wildland-urban interface on the amount and distribution of bark beetle-caused tree mortality

Keywords

wild fire, fuel management, thinning, climate change, fire history, resilience

Citation

Powers, Robert F., tech. editor. 2007. Restoring fire-adapted ecosystems: proceedings of the 2005 national silviculture workshop. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-203, Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. 306 p