• 1929: Duncan Dunning started a “Methods of Cutting” study and mapped all trees and quantified all understory vegetation
• 2006: Eric Knapp found Duncan Dunning’s old data from ‘30’s
• 2007-2008: Remapped trees – Among the oldest plots in the USFS system
• 2009: Two Studies: (1) “Variable Density Thinning” and Rx Fire initiated on 240 ac. (2) Comparing Thinning and Rx Fire treatments to alleviate pine mortality on 135 ac.
Research Introduction
So What Did I Do?!5,760 meters of transect lines located & marked
1,152 herbaceous 1x1 meter plots 1,152 sapling
5x5 meter plots
3,500 trees: tagged, identified & measured
(DBH & hgt. to canopy)
1,920 meters of ground fuels measured
(classified as 1, 10, 100, 1,000 hour fuels)
+/- 500 pines >60 cm DBH found & measured at DBH, fire scars noted