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Sierra Nevada Forests
Since the 1960s, pioneering studies on the effects of both forest fires and decades of fire suppression have been carried out in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California in Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Fire suppression in the Sierra Nevada has now led to conditions in which catastrophic fires may threaten the forests themselves. Suppression of lightning-caused fires has resulted in denser forests, invasion of open areas by trees and shrubs and large accumulations of woody debris. Scientists and managers in the Sierra Nevada parks have long recognized the essential nature of fire in these forests and have responded over the years with an increasingly sophisticated fire restoration program using both prescribed burns and natural fires.
The purpose of this site is to provide scientific information, latest research, and vital links relating to forest fires in Sierra Nevada forests. It provides links to scientific studies such as: ecosystem impacts of fire; fire and fuel in a Sierra Nevada Ecosystem, fire and Sequoia reproduction, fuel mapping and fire model; impact of fire on grazing and plant diversity, and information relating to Sierra Nevada Global Change Research Program. It provides link to site: why does the National Park Service use fire?
forest fires, geological survey, impacts of fire, fire hazards, fuel mapping, sequoia reproduction, fire mapping, fire model, global change, fire hazard reduction, impact of fire, lightening fires, fire control, undergrowth, suppression of fire, wildfires, prescribed burns, artificial cutting, managed ecosystems, tree ring research, natural fires
sequoia groves, conifers, ponderosa pine, incense-cedar, black oaks, white fir,
March 04, 2003 10:00 PM
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Sierra Nevada forest, Yosemite, Sequoia forest, Kings Canyon National Park
Merced River
Merced County, Mariposa County