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“Hat Trick” Project
Black ForestColorado Springs, ColoradoOctober to December, 2013
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Best Predictors for Postfire Mortality of Ponderosa Pine Trees in the Intermountain WestCarolyn Hull Sieg, Joel D. McMillin, James F. Fowler, Kurt K. Allen, Jose´ F. Negron,Linda L. Wadleigh, John A. Anhold, and Ken E. Gibson
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Following the 2013 Black Forest Fire,a rubber-tired feller/buncher
cuts burned and damaged ponderosa pine.
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The machine can accumulateseveral smaller trees at one time
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Felled trees are carried to where a bundleis being built for removal by a skidder
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A skidder “bundle” ready tobe skidded to the landing
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Trees felled and bunched along temporary road corridorMaggie Adam’s Property
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Very low stumps cut with therubber-tired feller-buncher
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A tracked feller buncher and agrapple skidder waiting to begin work
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John Deere 748 Grapple Skiddershard at work
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As skidders return to the project area from log landings,they bring slash and debris with them. This material will
be masticated along with the smaller remaining trees and isnecessary to provide sufficient chip cover for erosion control
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Close-up view of material generated by the flailand which is hauled back for erosion and restoration purposes.
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Neighboring properties that could not beskidded directly to landings were
hand-felled, and hauled to processingsites by self-loading log trucks.
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Log Processor delimbs and bucksmerchantable material from logs.
Flail partially delimbs and helpsremoved burned bark from logs.
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A close-up view of the processing headthat delimbs and bucks logs to
merchantable lengths.
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A skidder and the log loader work together to feedand help pull burned logs through the flail.
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The log loader stacks logs thatwill eventually be ground up with
a horizontal grinder for mulchand “hog fuel” (biomass).
The log loader and log processor work inwell-choreographed movements to sort
logs and manage the log landings.
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Manufactured sawlogs ready for transport to area mills.
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Work begins early:A log truck being loaded at sunrise.
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West Range Reclamation’s new Peterson 5710 Horizontal Grinderis backed into position for grinding. The grinder has tracks and is
self-propelled so it can be “walked” to different landings onceit has been trucked to a job site.
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In-feed side of the grinder
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An excavator equipped with abucket with a “thumb” loads logs,
stumps and other forest debris into thehorizontal grinder for processing.
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Ground material flows from the end ofthe horizontal grinder after processing.
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Ground material can be loaded directly into chip vansor is stockpiled for loading at a later time. For efficiency
WRR tries to keep the grinder working at all times.
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A baseball cap provides a sense of scale for the material comingdirectly from the grinder. The material can be “screened” to
sort different sized material for different markets.
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Final Steps: Mastication of remainingsmaller trees and slash piles.
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Slash pile mastication
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“Fine Grinding” to achieve desiredmulch size and distributionTree marked for
retention for wildlife
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Fecon mastication head ready to be mounted on theTigercat 726 rubber-tired carrier upon completion of tree cutting.
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The large masticator at work.
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Completed AreaArea waitingfor mastication
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Completed area in foreground (above)Close-up of masticated material (left)
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A new view of Pikes Peak has been opened up for the landownerby the salvage operations conducted on her property.
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A frontend loader is used to loadchip vans with ground material.
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A Chip Van being loaded. 16 -20bucket loads required to fill the van.
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Neighbors Helping Neighbors: Landowners have granted West RangeReclamation permission to store logs from neighboring properties on theirland for processing. Others have allowed logs to be skidded across their
properties or logs to be decked on and hauled from their properties.That is the Black Forest Spirit!
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Side view of the log deck shown in the previous slide – 4 layers deep!This gives some sense of the volume being removed; and realize thatthe sawlogs have already been removed from these decks. All of this
material will be ground for mulch products.
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Expected Post Fire Recovery
A High Burned area on Denver Water’sCheesman Reservoir Property immediately
after passage of the 2002 Hayman Fire.
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Post-fire erosion and sedimentation(above and left)
Often, heavy rains and flooding follow intense fires
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At Cheesman Reservoirpost-fire mechanical harvesting,
re-seeding, and masticationwere conducted, just as is nowoccurring in the Black Forest.
Post-fire harvest at Cheesman Reservoir(left and above)
Mastication Treatment & grassseedlings emerging from mulch
(left and below)
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West side of reservoirend of 2003 (first growing season)
Landscape view of west sideJune, 2004
In the picture above, note the distinct green islands where mechanical treatments occurredcompared to the steep slopes where only grass seeding occurred.
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Grasses are well established and flourishingat the start of the 3rd growing season