Lidar imaging (McGaughey and Carson 2003; USDA Pacific Northwest Research Station 2005), showing graphic differences between post-fire effects of crown fires and ground fires (thanks to National Geographic Magazine).

This website report has been prepared for Bernard Bormann, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, by Bob Zybach, Oregon Websites and Watersheds Project, Inc.(Zybach 2008). The principal purpose of this site is to detail and demonstrate a strategy to complete a cooperative interactive educational website for the proposed post-Biscuit Fire management study (Bormann et al. 2004). Initial cooperators for the website are the two organizations just listed.

The intent of this project is to design and create a stable, independent website that will serve as a principal source of post-Biscuit Fire data for study collaborators and interested public, as an interactive “civil science” and monitoring tool, and as a basis for formal science research and teaching curricula. This draft website provides a conceptual strategy for achieving those results.

The goals of this project are to design and create a website that can serve as: 1) a principal source of project data for study collaborators, students, teachers, local schools and residents, and interested public, 2) an interactive civil science and monitoring tool, and 3) a basis for formal and informal science research and teaching curricula.

Biscuit Fire History and Context.

  Management Study Design.
  Cooperative Data Source
  Public Science Education
  Study Hypotheses Database: Research and Teaching Curricula
  Long-Term Research. Site Monitoring Methods and Datasets
  Conclusions.
References.

Bormann, Bernard T., Robyn Darbyshire, R. C. Miller, D. E. White, D. V. Delack, T. K. Link, and Rich Fairbanks 2004. “Appendix A: Plan for a Landscape Management Experiment on Restoring and Protecting Late Successional Forest Habitat After the Biscuit Fire,” IN: Biscuit Fire Recovery Plan Final Environmental Impact Statement, USDA US Forest Service and USDI Bureau of Land Management 2004 (2 volumes): 25 pp. [PDF]

Zybach, Bob. 2008. Conceptual Design Strategy to Create a Cooperative Interactive Educational Website for the Post-Biscuit Fire Management Study. Unpublished report. Oregon Websites and Watersheds Project, Inc. and USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, Oregon: 12 pp. [PDF]

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