Fire Ecology Annual Report: Calendar Year 2010; Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and Devils Postpile National Monument
Caprio A. Fire Ecology Annual Report: Calendar Year 2010; Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and Devils Postpile National Monument
A summary of fire ecology activities and program information for the Park/network including fire effects plot workload, staffing, management objectives and monitoring results, and planning, fire monitoring, communications, and research. Also included are staff accomplishments/areas of focus, future program direction and other optional information (e.g. data analysis graphics or presentations, annual highlights, publications, program challenges, unique solutions to problems, collaboration, photographs of monitoring/fire activities, and suggestions on FFI). Major activities for the Fire Ecology Program in SEKI involved fire effects plot sampling, data analysis, postfire landscape assessment sampling, completion of field sampling for the lodgepole pine fire regimes study, and operational support for prescribed fires. Substantial time was also spent on resource advisor (READ) activities because of an active wildfire season. Sizable burns in 2010 included the Viewpoint, Bobcat, and Sillman Prescribed (Rx) Burns (73, 97 and 98 ac) and the large 9,120 ac Sheep Wildfire (origin and 3,125 ac in the park). Staff collaborated on several manuscripts, with some utilizing long-term fire ecology data sets. A SEKI “Fire Ecology Review” was organized and held in the park in February. Additionally, during the year significant time was invested by the fire ecologist on SEKI’s Division of Resources Management and Science (DRMS) Natural Resources Condition Assessment (NRCA) as a focal resource lead, as a member of the SEKI Fire Management Committee, and on input into park compliance. Time was also committed as the federal representative for a Joint Fire Science (JFS) project and to providing inputs or feedback to the SIEN Inventory and Monitoring Program. Our PSTF GS-7 lead fire effects position remained unfilled as per the direction of PWR fire management office in expectation of budget reductions for fire programs in FY11.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Caprio, Anthony
- Units
- DEPO , FIEC , SEKI
- Keywords
- FFI, Fire Effects, Fuels, Monitoring
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Landscapes | Fire and Fuel Dynamics | Fire and Fuel Dynamics