2012 WBP Sow & Grow for Purdy Fire
Project: WBP Sow and Grow for Purdy Fire Area
Agency/Forest or Park/District: Purdy Fire Area, Shoshone National Forest, Wind River Ranger District
Project coordinator: Ellen Jungck
Contact: Ellen Jungck, Shoshone NF; SZ Silviculturist/TMA, PO Box 186, Dubois, WY 82513 307-455-4164 ejungck@fs.fed.us
Cooperators
Arbor Day Foundation
Source of funding /amount
FHP: $9,600
Supplemental funding: none
Dates of restoration efforts
June 2013
Objectives
Sow and grow approximately 13,600 seedlings for outplanting in FY2014 (Purdy Unit 16). The original funding request was to sow and grow for FY2014; the nursery used $9600 from FHP for FY2013 whitebark sow and grow bill for planting part of unit 3e instead of unit 16, as originally planned.
Acres/ha treated
31 acres
Methods
Summer 2011: Conduct pre-planting surveys to determine unplantable ground
September 2011:
1- Calculate percent unplantable ground,
2- Calculate number of trees needed based on unplantable ground
3- Order seedlings from nursery.
Winter 2011-2012: Obligate funds to nursery
Outplanting 7300 trees in unit 3e in FY2013.
Planting? If so, source of seedlings? Resistance?
Yes; UNIONPASS09; seed was collected from an area of known resistance according to Mahalovich 110-seed source study. Seed orchard for the GYA is not yet producing rust-resistant seed.
Outcome
The project is complete. A timeline for the project is listed below:
| Date | Activity/Methods |
| Summer, 2011 | Conduct pre-planting surveys to determine unplantable ground |
| September 30, 2011 |
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| November 2011 | Order seedlings from nursery |
| February 2012 | Obligate funds to nursery |
| August, 2012 | SNF to prepare budget request for remaining funds to cover planting costs via regional funds and/or national MOUs for reforestation. |
| February-March, 2013 |
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| June, 2013 |
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Monitoring since completion of the project
Dates August/September 2013 1st year survival surveys – 92%
Plans for future monitoring? Additional survival surveys to be conducted in FY2015 and FY2017.
Will outcome meet goals?
Yes
Future actions/follow up?
Additional survival surveys to be conducted in FY2015 and FY2017.