Woodland Mechanical Treatments
Chainsaw
The chainsaw treatment involves cutting all trees larger than .5m and leaving them where they fall. Limbs were not severed from the trunk after being cut.
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A sawyer cuts a Utah juniper tree at the Onaqui woodland site. |
Foreground: cut juniper trees; background: Onaqui woodland prescribed burn plot. |
Tree Mastication
The Bull Hog™ treatment has been implemented at SageSTEP study sites in Utah only. All trees within mastication plots were mulched and the mulch was left where it fell.
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The Bull Hog™ pushes over and mulches a juniper tree. |
Mulch that was left behind by the Bull Hog™. |
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The Bull Hog™. |
Bull Hog™ "teeth". |
Chainsaw and mastication treatments (Utah only*) have been implemented at SageSTEP study sites as follows:
Fall 2008: Saddle Mountain, South Ruby Mountains
Fall 2007: Blue Mountain,
Devine Ridge,
Greenville Bench*,
Scipio*,
Seven Mile,
Stansbury*
Fall 2006: Marking Corral, Onaqui Sage/Woodland*, Bridge Creek, Walker Butte