SAGEHEN PROJECT Tahoe National Forest Truckee Ranger District

SAGEHEN PROJECT Tahoe National Forest, Truckee Ranger District PSW Sagehen Experimental Forest UC Berkeley Sagehen Field Station

SYLLABUS Retention Patch Pictures v. Rx Burn Numbers v. Treatment Numbers v. American Marten Update v SAGEHEN PROJECT Tahoe National Forest, Truckee Ranger District PSW Sagehen Experimental Forest UC Berkeley Sagehen Field Station

SAGEHEN PROJECT Tahoe National Forest, Truckee Ranger District PSW Sagehen Experimental Forest UC Berkeley Sagehen Field Station

SAGEHEN PROJECT Tahoe National Forest, Truckee Ranger District PSW Sagehen Experimental Forest UC Berkeley Sagehen Field Station

SAGEHEN PROJECT Tahoe National Forest, Truckee Ranger District PSW Sagehen Experimental Forest UC Berkeley Sagehen Field Station

THE NUMBERS Burn Rx vs Actual Weather Wind Speed Upper Rx Lower Rx 8 MPH 0 MPH Actual 0 -3 MPH Temperature Upper Rx 85 F Lower Rx Any Actual 61 -65 F 10 hr Fuel Moisture Upper Rx 4 SAGEHEN PROJECT Lower Rx 12 Actual 11 Tahoe National Forest, Truckee Ranger District PSW Sagehen Experimental Forest UC Berkeley Sagehen Field Station

THE NUMBERS Burn Intensities Top 1/3 – Strip Light Flame Length 4 ft Flame Zone Depth 2 ft Rate of Spread . 45 ft/min Middle 1/3 – Dot Light Flame Length 1 ft Flame Zone Depth 6 in Rate of Spread . 33 ft/min Bottom 1/3 – Strip Light Flame Length 5 ft SAGEHEN PROJECT Flame Zone Depth 3 ft Rate of Spread 2 ft/min Tahoe National Forest, Truckee Ranger District PSW Sagehen Experimental Forest UC Berkeley Sagehen Field Station

THE NUMBERS Volume Removed Average per Acre* Saw Material CCF 9. 59 MBF* ~6 * Tons*** ~48 Biomass Material Total 6. 67 16. 26 ~4 ~10 ~32 ~80 * calculation includes all retention patches ** assumed 1. 63 CCF = 1 MBF *** assumed 1 MBF (Doyle log rule) = 8 tons SAGEHEN PROJECT Tahoe National Forest, Truckee Ranger District PSW Sagehen Experimental Forest UC Berkeley Sagehen Field Station

THE #NUMBERS of Trees Pre Treatment/Removed Unit 10 Pre Treatment 10” – 19. 9” JP/PP/S Totals P WF/R F Total s 20” – 29. 9” 30” + 139 42 10 191 147 17 3 167 286 59 13 358 20” – 29. 9” 30” + 12 0 0 12 93 4 0 97 105 4 0 109 Unit 10 Removed 10” – 19. 9” JP/PP/S Totals P WF/R F Total s SAGEHEN PROJECT Tahoe National Forest, Truckee Ranger District PSW Sagehen Experimental Forest UC Berkeley Sagehen Field Station

THE #NUMBERS of Trees Pre Treatment/Removed Unit 11 Pre Treatment 10” – 19. 9” JP/PP/SP/LP/WWTotals P WF/R F Total s 20” – 29. 9” 30” + 87 7 4 98 196 64 31 291 283 71 35 389 20” – 29. 9” 30” + 11 0 0 11 91 9 0 102 9 0 111 Unit 11 Removed 10” – 19. 9” JP/PP/SP/LP/WWTotals P WF/R F Total s SAGEHEN PROJECT Tahoe National Forest, Truckee Ranger District PSW Sagehen Experimental Forest UC Berkeley Sagehen Field Station

SAGEHEN PROJECT Tahoe National Forest, Truckee Ranger District PSW Sagehen Experimental Forest UC Berkeley Sagehen Field Station

MARTEN UPDATE Working with researchers to define location and spatial arrangement of suitable habitat for marten in Sagehen Basin v. Verifying baseline vegetation typing v. Examine habitat change over time v. Developing preliminary ideas on management activities to maintain and/or enhance marten habitat v SAGEHEN PROJECT Tahoe National Forest, Truckee Ranger District PSW Sagehen Experimental Forest UC Berkeley Sagehen Field Station

MARTEN UPDATE Management strategies can include: Specific strategies for habitat patches v. Looking at linkage corridors – riparian or other v. Identifying barriers to movement between core patches of habitat and potential solutions v. Retention of key habitat features for denning and resting sites – snags, logs, diseased/damaged trees v. Maintain and/or increase landscape heterogeneity while maintaining core patches and linkages v SAGEHEN PROJECT Tahoe National Forest, Truckee Ranger District PSW Sagehen Experimental Forest UC Berkeley Sagehen Field Station