Tenderfoot Research Project: Fuel loading and postburn tree mortality data

This product contains fuel loading, overstory tree mortality and burn severity data associated with the Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest Vegetative Treatment Research Project between 2000 and 2009. The project is located on the Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest (TCEF) which is north of White Sulphur Springs, Montana. Experimental shelterwood harvests combined with prescribed burning were implemented in the Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest between 1999 and 2003. These data contain fuel loading measurements collected preharvest/preburn; 1, 2, 3 and 8 years postharvest; as well as 1 and 6 years postburn. Tree diameter, crown scorch, basal charring, ground charring and cambium mortality following fire for mature lodgepole pine, Douglas-fir, subalpine fir, Engelmann spruce and whitebark pine trees were measured. Tree mortality was also recorded 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 years after fire.The Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest was established in 1961 as an experimental watershed in a representative lodgepole pine forest common east of the Continental Divide. Lodgepole pine forests cover approximately 50 million acres in the western US and are the third most extensive forest type in the American Rocky Mountains. Our mixture of silvicultural and prescribed burning treatments were designed to manage fuel loading and promote two-aged stand structures found naturally across the TCEF and elsewhere in lodgepole pine-dominated forests in the Northern Rockies. Fuel loading data were collected to quantify the results of these treatments on fuel load characteristics. Tree mortality data were collected to quantify burn severity and overstory tree survival.Seedling, sapling and variable radius tree plot data were also collected as part of the Tenderfoot Research Project. See the Cross Reference section for access to other data collected at the Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest.

Original metadata date was 03/02/2015. Minor updates (additions) to methods section were made on 06/12/2015. Additional minor metadata updates were made on 12/14/2016 and 09/08/2020.

本产品包含与2000年至2009年间Tenderfoot Creek实验林植被处理研究项目相关的燃料负荷、林冠树木死亡率和燃烧严重程度数据。该项目位于蒙大拿州怀特硫磺泉以北的Tenderfoot Creek实验林（TCEF）。在1999年至2003年期间，在Tenderfoot Creek实验林中实施了实验性的林分疏伐与预定燃烧措施。这些数据包括预先收获/燃烧时的燃料负荷测量、收获后/燃烧后1、2、3年和8年的测量数据，以及燃烧后1年和6年的测量数据。对成熟的美洲松、花旗松、亚高山云杉、恩格尔曼云杉和白皮松树木的树干直径、树冠灼烧、树基碳化、地表碳化和火灾后树皮死亡进行了测量。树木死亡率也在火灾后1、2、3、4年和6年被记录。Tenderfoot Creek实验林于1961年建立，作为一个代表大陆分水岭以东的典型美洲松林区的实验流域。美洲松林覆盖了美国西部约5000万英亩，是美国落基山脉中第三大森林类型。我们的森林经营与预定燃烧处理混合设计旨在管理燃料负荷，并促进在TCEF以及其他北部落基山脉以美洲松为主的森林中自然存在的双龄林结构。收集燃料负荷数据以量化这些处理对燃料负荷特征的影响结果。收集树木死亡率数据以量化燃烧严重程度和林冠树木的存活率。作为Tenderfoot研究项目的一部分，还收集了幼苗、幼树和可变半径树木样地的数据。有关Tenderfoot Creek实验林收集的其他数据，请参阅交叉引用部分。原始元数据日期为2015年3月2日。方法部分在2015年6月12日进行了少量更新（添加）。在2016年12月14日和2020年9月8日进行了额外的少量元数据更新。