Fire effects on the soils and hydrology of the Cascabel Watersheds in the Coronado National Forest, Madrean Archipeligo

Gerald J. Gottfried; Dan G. Neary; Peter F. Ffolliott; Karen Koestner

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Fire effects on the soils and hydrology of the Cascabel Watersheds in the Coronado National Forest, Madrean Archipeligo

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Authors:

Gerald J. Gottfried, Dan G. Neary, Peter F. Ffolliott, Karen Koestner

Year:

2022

Type:

Proceedings

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

In: Neary, D. G.; Gottfried, G. J., eds. Collaboration Now for the Future: IV Conference on the Biodiversity and Management of the Madrean Archipelago. Proceedings RMRS-P-79. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 365-389.

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Abstract

Effects of cool-season (November-April) and warm-season (May-October) prescribed burning treatments and a spring wildfire on the soils and hydrologic functioning of the oak savannas on the Cascabel Watersheds in the Southwestern Borderlands Region of Arizona and New Mexico are reported in this paper. The impacts of the fire events on transpiration, formation of water repellent soils, hillslope soil erosion and deposition, streamflow regimes, and sediment depositions are among these soil and hydrologic functions. Results should be useful in planning management activities in similar oak savannas within Southwestern Borderlands Region.

Parent Publication

Collaboration Now for the Future: IV Conference on the Biodiversity and Management of the Madrean Archipelago

Keywords

fire effects, hydrologic functioning, oak savannas, prescribed burning, southwestern United States, Arizona, New Mexico, soils, hydrology, citizen science

Citation

Gottfried, Gerald J.; Neary, Daniel G.; Ffolliott, Peter F.; Koestner, Karen. 2022. Fire effects on the soils and hydrology of the Cascabel Watersheds in the Coronado National Forest, Madrean Archipeligo. In: Neary, D. G.; Gottfried, G. J., eds. Collaboration Now for the Future: IV Conference on the Biodiversity and Management of the Madrean Archipelago. Proceedings RMRS-P-79. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 365-389.