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Fuels Monitoring on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation. Two types of monitoring on NPIR during 2004. Photo points FIREMON. After. Before. Goat Browsing. After. Before. ASV with Fecon treatment. FIREMON plots 2004. Student Conservation Association 12 month project leader
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Two types of monitoring on NPIR during 2004 • Photo points • FIREMON
After Before Goat Browsing
After Before ASV with Fecon treatment
FIREMON plots 2004 Student Conservation Association • 12 month project leader • 6 month interns (2) • Inventory Period: July 1 – Nov 11, 2004
121 total installed plots • 31 - goat browsing effectiveness • 7 – ASV with Fecon • 7 – Excavator brush piling • 23 – Thinning treatments • 39 – Fuel loading assessment of Sweetwater Drainage • 14 – Fuel loading post timber sale harvest
Re-measurement of Plots in 2004 • 11 plots re-measured by Forestry personnel for quality control measures • 10 plots re-measured after treatment by FIREMON crew
Comparison btn FIREMON and Forestry crews 80% of the check plots resulted in more total tons per acre by the Forestry crew
Cavendish 02-3E photos Before After
Problems encountered with FIREMON plots • Plot location establishment • Photos – clear and same direction • Human error measuring fuels plots -1000 hour fuels, transect location, tree measurements • How to get statistics (stand. error, etc) • Trimble Recon malfunctioning
Where we are going with fuels monitoring on the Nez Perce?? • Remeasure last years plots after treatments occur. • Install new plots prior to fuels treatments • Incorporate fuels inventory into the Tribe’s normal timber inventory procedures