Using tree recruitment patterns and fire history to guide restoration of an unlogged ponderosa pine/Douglas-fir landscape in the southern Rocky Mountains after a century of fire suppression

Forestry

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 231-241

  Kaufmann, Merrill R ^a   Huckaby, Laurie S ^a   Fornwalt, Paula J ^a   Stoker, Jason M ^a,c   Romme, William H ^b  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION AND SCIENCE EROS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRE HISTORY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; RECRUITMENT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

UNITED STATES;

ABIES; PINUS PONDEROSA; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 0037650198     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/76.2.231     Document Type: Conference Paper

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