- Wallowa-Whitman National Forest
- Mixed-conifer forest: Ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir
- Fire return interval: 10-25 years
- Represents 400,000 hectares in the Blue Mountains of Oregon
The Blue Mountains project is located on the Wallowa Valley District between Davis and Crow Creek drainages, 45 km north of Enterprise, Oregon. The study site is a complete randomized design of four treatments and four replications, resulting in 16 experimental units. The following suite of four FFS treatments are implemented at Hungry Bob: untreated control, prescribed fire only, initial and periodic cutting only, initial and periodic cutting followed by prescribed fire. Actual fieldwork at Hungry Bob was initiated in 1996 after a careful analysis of implementing the project at three other locations within the Blue Mountains. After three days of burning, all eight experimental units are successfully burned by late September 2000.
Publications
Site Manager
Andy Youngblood
USFS, PNW Research Station
Site Data Manager
Kent Coe
USFS, PNW Research Station
Site Discipline Leaders
Economics
Jamie Barbour
USFS, PNW Research Station
Entomology
Andy Youngblood
USFS, PNW Research Station
Fuels
Roger Ottmar
USFS, PNW Research Station
Pathology
Andy Youngblood
USFS, PNW Research Station
Soils
James McIver
Oregon State University
Vegetation
Andy Youngblood
USFS, PNW Research Station
Wildlife
Kerry Farri
Wildlife Conservation Society
Steve Zack
Wildlife Conservation Society