Progress 05/17/04 to 09/30/06
Outputs
OBJECTIVES: Assess and treat hazardous forest fuels in Centennial Forest, located near Flagstafff, Arizona. APPROACH: Plots will be thinned to prepare for research on forest thinning. TERMINATION: The goal of this project was to thin 300 acres of dense forest in the Flagstaff Wildland-Urban Interface to protect the Centennial Forest, adjacent forest areas, and the city of Flagstaff from catastrophic fires and to create research opportunities for scientists.
Impacts
This treatment will contributed significantly to the landscape-level fuel break being created in the Flagstaff Wildland-Urban Interface. Research projects on carbon sequestration and the economics of various harvesting methods help reduce the costs of community wildfire protection in the western U.S.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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Progress 01/01/05 to 12/31/05
Outputs
The goal of this project is to thin 300 acres of dense forest in the Flagstaff Wildland-Urban Interface to protect the Centennial Forest, adjacent forest areas, and the city of Flagstaff from catastrophic fires and to create research opportunities for scientists.
Impacts
This treatment will contribute significantly to the landscape-level fuel break being created in the Flagstaff Wildland-Urban Interface. Research projects on carbon sequestration and the economics of various harvesting methods will help reduce the costs of community wildfire protection in the western U.S.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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Progress 01/01/04 to 12/31/04
Outputs
The goal of this project, entitled Fire Prevention on the NAU Centennial Forest, is to treat 300 acres of forest to reduce the risk of wildfire while also creating two new experimental forest treatments. Approximately 170 acres have been marked for treatment. The target date for treatment of the first 170 block is October 2005. Layout and marking of the second treatment area will occur during the 2005 field season.
Impacts
The first treatment area will replicate a long-term Forest Service research project and will provide conditions suitable for testing bark beetle-forest density hypotheses. The second treatment area will serve as part of an important carbon flux study which should help address questions about the effects of forest management on carbon sequestration and global climate change. Both treatment areas are contiguous with previous Centennial Forest thinning projects or U.S. Forest Service projects so as to create a fuel break protecting Flagstaff, as well as valuable portions of the research forest.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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