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Prescribed Fire Management in Pitch Pine Barrens Throughout New England: Burned vs. Unburned
Sadie StoneAdvisor: Peter PalmiottoM.S. Candidate, Conservation BiologyAntioch University New England Graduate School
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“Pitch Pine Pete”
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/pitch_pine_pete/popular-interesting, 2012
“Pitch Pine Pete”
Sadie Stone
BACKGROUND
Fire Management predates European Settlement in New England
Recent fire suppression has drastically altered ecosystem dynamics in pine barren systems that are fire-adapted
Resulting in loss of rare habitats, flora and fauna
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Common Nighthawk
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Lithophane thaxteri
www.species.wikimedia.org
Eastern TowheeLycia rachelae
www.entomology.ualberta.ca
Xylena thoracica
www.mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu
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Whip- poor -will
Gary Martin
SO WHY IS THIS RESEARCH IMPORTANT
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Fire Suppression = Overgrown Pine BarrensNo Pine Barrens = Habitat LossHabitat Loss = Less Biodiversity
PITCH PINE
RXFIRE
Jeff LougeeLithophane lepida lepida
QUESTION I INTEND TO ANSWER
How does herbaceous cover, vegetation composition,
understory sapling composition and tree
density differ among burned and unburned sites
?
HYPOTHESISThe unburned sites will be significantly more dense among all sinusia while also showing greater species diversity than the burned sites
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METHODS 3 Locations: (OPB) Ossipee Pine Barrens (NH), (HB)
Hollis Barrens (ME) & (WB) Waterboro Barrens (ME) 25, 10m radius plots in each burned & unburned site Total: 150 plots total
JMP 4 Statistical Software ANOVA Non-Parametric Equivalent
Kruskal-Wallis Test Power Analysis
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DATA ANALYSIS
BUDGET REQUEST
Travel: $706.20
Equipment: $935.20
Expendable Supplies:$1,317.79
Publication: $75.00
Overhead: $338.17
Grand Total$3,372.36
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Sadie StoneSadie Stone
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Jeff LougeeDr. Peter Palmiotto
Parker Schuerman
Dr. Rachel ThietLindsay St. PierreLiz Pascal
All My Classmateswww.treehugger.com
SPECIAL THANKS TO MY YOUNGER SISTER, ABBY!
Abby Stone