Taylor Park - Resistance

Treatment: maintain relatively unchanged conditions over time

Management Goals

Pine forest with some empty patches.
Resistance at Taylor Park includes management to achieve the DFC with mild deviation from standard strategies
& approaches. Photo Credit: Kirsten Martin, Colorado State University.
  • Retention of lodgepole pine on landscape
  • Reduce stand density
  • Reduce fuel continuity and ladder fuels
  • Maintain or increase water holding capacity/snowpack
  • Maintain Engelmann Spruce & Subalpine Fir for habitat diversity (goshawk habitat and nesting sites and snowshoe hare habitat)
  • Resistance to aridification, low intensity fire, and mountain pine beetle
  • Maintain access to roads for recreation & operation
  • Maintain snags for wildlife / cavity nesting
  • Protect heritage sites

Strategies & approaches

  • Commercial thin – crown thinning BA to open-up crown spacing
  • Favor removal of large diameter trees with Dwarf Mistletoe
  • Reduce surface fuel continuity
  • Retain shading to increase snow water equivalent
  • Sanitation thin
  • Retain Engelmann spruce and subalpine fir component
  • Retain 1-2 snags/acre
  • Promote a diverse herbaceous composition 
  • Maintain CWD

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Resilience

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View of forest from treatment site in Taylor Park. Photo Credit: Kirsten Martin, Colorado State University

Transition

Site Leads & Partners

Jonathan Coop (Western Colorado University) is the site lead for the Taylor Park ASCC site. Mike Battaglia (USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station), Carlyn Perovich (USFS Grand Mesa Uncompahgre & Gunnison National Forest), Art Haines (USFS Grand Mesa Uncompahgre & Gunnison National Forest), and Lauren Rupiper (USFS Grand Mesa Uncompahgre & Gunnison National Forest) are the site co-leads. Key collaborators include USDA California Climate Hub (Lauren Parker), Paula Fornwalt, Chuck Rhoades, and Zach Steel (USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station), and the Taylor Park Adaptive Management Group (AMG).

Jonathan Coop
Taylor Park ASCC Site Lead

Professor of Environment and Sustainability
Western Colorado University
Gunnison, CO 81231
Phone: 970-943-2565
Jcoop@western.edu

Headshot of Mike Battaglia.

Mike Battaglia
Taylor Park ASCC Site Co-Lead

Research Forester
USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Forest and Woodland Ecosystems Science Program
240 West Prospect Road Fort Collins, CO 80526
Phone: 970-498-1286
Michael.battaglia@usda.gov

Carlyn Perovich
Taylor Park ASCC Site Co-Lead

Ecologist
USDA Forest Service, Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests
2250 S Main St, Delta, CO 81416
Phone: 720-656-8655
carlyn.perovich@usda.gov

Art Haines
Taylor Park ASCC Site Co-Lead

Silviculturist
USDA Forest Service, Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests
Gunnison Ranger District
216 No. Colorado St Gunnison, CO 81230
p: 970-642-4423
Arthur.haines@usda.gov

Lauren Rupiper
Taylor Park ASCC Site Co-Lead

Timber Management Assistant
USDA Forest Service, Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests
Gunnison Ranger District
216 No. Colorado St Gunnison, CO 81230
c: 970-765-4106
lauren.rupiper@usda.gov