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SPECIES: Ribes lacustre | Bristly Black Currant
CASE NAME : Neal Canyon Prescribed Fire/Vegetation Development Study REFERENCE : Lyon, J. L. 1971 [42] SEASON/SEVERITY CLASSIFICATION : Summer/severe STUDY LOCATION : The study site is located in Neal Canyon, 6 miles (9.6 km) north of Ketchum, Idaho, in the Sawtooth National Forest. PREFIRE VEGETATIVE COMMUNITY : The study site was selectively logged in 1950 and 1960. The remaining trees were primarily pole and sapling Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), many of which were diseased. Minor tree species included lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta), subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa), Englemann spruce (Picea engelmannii), and quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides). Understory vegetation was dominated by Rocky Mountain maple (Acer glabrum) and mountain snowberry (Symphoricarpos oreophilus). Bristly black currant was a minor species. Vegetation layers over and under 18 inches (46 cm) in height were sampled and described separately. Bristly black currant under 18 inches occurred on 20 percent of the study quadrats. Bristly black currant abundance of plants over 18 inches in height was: density 0.9 plant/1,000 sq feet canopy cover 0.67 percent aerial crown volume 16.8 cubic feet/1,000 sq feet TARGET SPECIES PHENOLOGICAL STATE : Bristly black currant was probably in flowering and fruiting stages on August 1, the day of the fire. SITE DESCRIPTION : The mountainous study site is at 6,500 feet (1,980 m) elevation. Annual precipitation is from 14 to 17 inches (360-430 mm), most occurring in the winter as snow. The slope averages 64 percent and the aspect is 10 to 20 degrees. The soils are rocky, averaging 50 percent gravel. FIRE DESCRIPTION : The fire was started at 8 a.m. on August 1, 1963 and burned until 5 p.m. Air temperature was 50 degrees Fahrenheit (10 deg C) in the morning and nearly 80 degrees Fahrenheit (27 deg C) in the afternoon. Relative humidity declined from 50 percent in the morning to 10 percent in the afternoon. Fuel moisture sticks indicated 5 to 6 percent moisture. Surface winds were less than 5 miles per hour, but fire-induced gusts up to 30 miles per hour were recorded. The fire was severe and crowned. All litter, herbaceous plants, dead woody stems less than 3 inches (7.6 cm) in diameter, and live woody stems less than 2 inches (5.1) in diameter were consumed. The Douglas-fir overstory was killed. The mean heat flux, measured using water-can integrating devices, was 200 calories per second for 45 seconds. FIRE EFFECTS ON TARGET SPECIES : Bristly black currant was killed by the fire. Bristly black currant was observed on the study site beginning in postfire year 2. However, no bristly black currant less than 18 inches in height was detected during the 7 postfire years in 2- by 2-foot quadrats. Density, height, and crown volume for bristly black currant over 18 inches in height was originally recorded using quarter-point sampling [79], but this technique was eventually deemed inadequate because of low plant densities. Beginning in 1966 (postfire year 3), 0.04 acre (0.016 ha) plots were sampled, both in the original quarter-point sampling area and in three additional subplots located at lower, middle, and upper slope sites; measurable quantities of bristly black currant occurred only on the lower and upper slope subplots. Bristly black currant over 18 inches in height was first recorded in postfire year 3, presumably growing from seed in the first or second postfire year. The following data should be interpreted with caution because of very low sample numbers for bristly black currant. Postfire year 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 plants/1,000 sq ft original study area: - - T T - 0.3 0.1 subplots (lower slopes): * * 0.2 0.2 1.0 1.3 1.8 subplots (upper slopes): * * 0.1 0.5 0.2 0.2 0.5 canopy cover (%) original study area: - - T 0.01 - 0.05 T aerial crown volume (cu ft/1,000 sq ft) original study area: - - 0.1 0.1 - 1.1 T subplots (lower slopes): * * 0.2 0.4 2.6 7.4 4.4 subplots (upper slopes): * * 0.7 2.0 1.4 1.8 2.5 *Data were not collected Height and crown volume were measured and averaged for the first four bristly black currants on the burn to reach 18 inches in height. Postfire year 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 average height (ft) - - 1.7 1.6 1.5 2.4 1.9 Average volume (cu ft) - - 2.6 3.1 4.4 11.5 6.2 A wildfire site which burned in 1950 was located near the Neal Canyon study site. Twenty years after the wildfire, bristly black currant averaged 2.6 plants per 1,000 square feet, 0.6 percent cover , and 12.2 cubic feet aerial crown volume per 1,000 square feet. Based on the Neal Canyon prescribed fire and the wildfire, Lyon [42] projects that bristly black currant will reach prefire crown volumes 30 to 40 years after fire. FIRE MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS : NO-ENTRY

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