John Blanton: Forest Health

Objectives

To understand the causes and significance of disturbance in Southern Appalachian forests.
To identify the types of disturbances and their interactions.
To understand the use of fire by Native Americans.

General

Fire Ecology: An annotated bibliography, 2008

https://research.fs.usda.gov/srs/understory/fire-ecology-annotated-bibliography-2008
General

Fuel reduction treatments affect stand structure of hardwood forests in Western North Carolina and Southern Ohio, USA, Waldrop et al., 2007

https://research.fs.usda.gov/srs/understory/fuel-reduction-treatments-affect-stand-structure-hardwood-forests-western-north
General

Forest Floor Fuel Dynamics in Mixed-oak Forests of South-eastern Ohio, Graham & McCarthy, 2006

https://research.fs.usda.gov/srs/understory/forest-floor-fuel-dynamics-mixed-oak-forests-south-eastern-ohio-graham-mccarthy-2006
General

Disturbance Ecology of the Southern Appalachians, Van Lear, 2001

https://research.fs.usda.gov/srs/understory/disturbance-ecology-southern-appalachians-van-lear-2001
General

History, Uses, & Effects of Fire in the Appalachians, Van Lear & Waldrop, 1989

https://research.fs.usda.gov/srs/understory/history-uses-effects-fire-appalachians-van-lear-waldrop-1989
Fact Sheet

Spongy Moth

https://research.fs.usda.gov/srs/understory/spongy-moth
Fact Sheet

Oak Decline

https://research.fs.usda.gov/srs/understory/oak-decline