Can prescribed fire be used to maintain fuel treatment effectiveness over time in Black Hills ponderosa pine forests?

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 256, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2029-2038

  Battaglia, Mike A ^a,b   Smith, Frederick W ^a   Shepperd, Wayne D ^b  

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

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Black Hills; Fuel development; Fuel treatment longevity; Ladder fuels; Pinus ponderosa; Regeneration

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS; FLAMMABILITY; FORESTRY; FUELS; SUGAR (SUCROSE); WOOD FUELS;

BLACK HILLS; FUEL DEVELOPMENT; FUEL TREATMENT LONGEVITY; PINUS PONDEROSA; REGENERATION;

FIRES;

COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FUEL; GROWTH RATE; LONGEVITY; MORTALITY; PRESCRIBED BURNING; REGENERATION; UNDERSTORY;

FIRES; FLAMMABILITY; FORESTRY; FUELS; GROWTH; REFORESTATION; SEEDLINGS; SUCROSE; SUGARS; WOOD;

BLACK HILLS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PINUS PONDEROSA; PINUS PONDEROSA VAR. SCOPULORUM;

EID: 55549139752     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.07.026     Document Type: Article

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