Determining the ecological effects of fire suppression, fuels treatment, and wildlife through bird monitoring in the Klamath ecoregion of southern Oregon and northern California (Joint Fire Science Program # 01B-3-2-10) - final report
Alexander JD, Ralph CJ, Janes S, Seavy NE. Determining the ecological effects of fire suppression, fuels treatment, and wildlife through bird monitoring in the Klamath ecoregion of southern Oregon and northern California (Joint Fire Science Program # 01B-3-2-10) - final report
(Introduction) "With funding from the Joint Fire Sciences Program (JFSP) we investigated ecological effects of fire management by implementing a comprehensive study of bird distribution as it relates to fire suppression, fuels treatment, and wildfire rehabilitation in the Klamath Ecoregion of southern Oregon and northern California. This project augmented data from other studies to: address new fire-related questions, analyze historical bird and vegetation data, and provide resources for analysis of fire-related data funded by cooperators. By coordinating efforts of management-related bird monitoring programs of the USDA Forest Service, USDI Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, and others, this project was intended to enable agencies to expedite scientifically sound and effective monitoring programs that cross agency jurisdictions and fuel types. This project was designed to demonstrate the utility of bird monitoring as a tool for measuring the ecological effects of fire management. Our JFSP research efforts have resulted in 5 peer-reviewed manuscripts that have been accepted for publication, an additional paper that has been submitted, and 5 draft manuscripts that will be submitted in 2006 (Attachment 1). Our progress has been chronicled in 16 reports. We presented results from our research at 13 scientific meetings, 4 land management agency meetings, and 9 land management workshops. Information about our efforts was disseminated to our partners and the public through 4 popular presentation and 8 outreach products (Attachment 1). Our work through the Joint Fire Sciences Program allowed us to gain a better understanding of the effects of fire suppression and wildfire on bird communities and develop and test cost-effective bird and habitat monitoring techniques that can be used to measure site-specific and landscape-level ecological effects of fuels reduction projects (e.g. controlled-burning, pre-commercial thinning, and mastication). "
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Alexander, John; Ralph, C; Janes, Stewart; Seavy, Nathaniel
- Units
- CRLA , LABE
- Keywords
- Bird Studies, Birds, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Management, Fire Prevention, fire studies, Fuel Reduction, Monitoring, Prescribed Burn, Wildlife Studies