Variable Density Thinning Study
Stanislaus-Tuolumne Experimental Forest (STEF)

Publications Related to Variable Density Thinning:

Knapp, E.E.; North, M.; Benech, M.; Estes, B. 2012. The variable-density thinning study at the Stanislaus-Tuolumne Experimental Forest. In: North, M., ed. Managing Sierra Nevada forests. USDA Forest Service, General Technical Report GTR-PSW-237. Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station: 127-139.

Lydersen, J.M.; Collins, B.M.; Knapp, E.E.; Roller, G.; Stephens, S. 2015. Relating fuel loads to overstorey structure and composition in a fire-excluded Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 24: 484-494.

Pickard, Michael. 2015. Influence of within-stand tree spatial arrangement on snowpack distribution and ablation in the Sierra Nevada, CA. Merced, CA: University of California. 81 p. M.S. Thesis

Sollmann, R.; White, A.M.; Tarbill, G.L.; Manley, P.N.; Knapp, E.E. 2016. Landscape heterogeneity compensates for fuel reduction treatment effects on Northern flying squirrel populations. Forest Ecology and Management. 373: 100-107.

Knapp, E.E.; Lydersen, J.M.; North, M.P.; Collins, B.M. 2017. Efficacy of variable density thinning and prescribed fire for restoring forest heterogeneity to mixed conifer forest in the central Sierra Nevada, CA. Forest Ecology and Management. Forest Ecology and Management. 406: 228-241.

Roche, J.W. Goulden, M.L.; Bales, R.C. 2018.Estimating evapotranspiration change due to forest treatment and fire at the basin scale in the Sierra Nevada, California. Ecohydrology. 11: e1978. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1978

Zheng, Z.; Ma, Q.; Qian, K.; Bales, R.C. 2018. Canopy effects on snow accumulation: observations from Lidar, canonical-view photos, and continuous ground measurements from sensor networks. Remote Sensing. 10: 1769. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10111769

Knapp, Eric E.; Carlson, Robert L.; North, Malcolm P.; Lydersen, Jamie L.; Collins, Brandon M. 2020. Restoring forest heterogeneity with thinning and prescribed fire: Initial results from the central Sierra Nevada, California. In: Pile, Lauren S.; Deal, Robert L.; Dey, Daniel C.; Gwaze, David; Kabrick, John M.; Palik, Brian J.; Schuler, Thomas M., comps. The 2019 National Silviculture Workshop: a focus onforest management-research partnerships. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-193. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 216-226.