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Fuels Monitoring on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation

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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Fuels Monitoring on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation

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  1. Fuels Monitoring on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation

  2. Two types of monitoring on NPIR during 2004 • Photo points • FIREMON

  3. After Before Goat Browsing

  4. After Before ASV with Fecon treatment

  5. FIREMON plots 2004 Student Conservation Association • 12 month project leader • 6 month interns (2) • Inventory Period: July 1 – Nov 11, 2004

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Comparison btn FIREMON and Forestry crews

  9. Comparison btn FIREMON and Forestry crews

  10. FIREMON plots pre/post treatment

  11. FIREMON plots pre/post treatment

  12. Comparison btn FIREMON and Forestry crews 80% of the check plots resulted in more total tons per acre by the Forestry crew

  13. FIREMON plots pre/post treatment

  14. Cavendish 02-3E photos Before After

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. AFTER

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