The use of fire in forest restoration

Abstract

The 26 papers in this document address the current knowledge of fire as a disturbance agent, fire history and fire regimes, applications of prescribed fire for ecological restoration, and the effects of fire on the various forested ecosystems of the north-western United States. The main body of this document is organized in three sections: Assessing Needs for Fire in Restoration; Restoration of Fire in Inland Forests; and Restoration in Pacific Westside Forests. These papers comprise the proceedings from a general technical conference at the 1995 Annual Meeting of the Society for Ecological Restoration, held at the University of Washington, Seattle, September 14-16, 1995.

Titles contained within The use of fire in forest restoration

• The seminal role of fire in ecosystem management-impetus for this publication
• Restoring fire to ecosystems: Methods vary with land management goals
• Fire regimes and approaches for determining fire history
• Coarse-scale restoration planning and design in Interior Columbia River Basin ecosystems: An example for restoring declining whitebark pine forests
• Dynamically incorporating late-successional forest in sustainable landscapes
• Smoke considerations for using fire in maintaining healthy forest ecosystems
• Restoration of fire in National Parks
• The role of fire in Research Natural Areas in the Northern Rockies and Pacific Northwest
• The concept: Restoring ecological structure and process in ponderosa pine forests
• Silvicultural applications: Restoring ecological structure and process in ponderosa pine forests
• Prescribed fire applications: Restoring ecological structure and process in ponderosa pine forests
• Reestablishing fire-adapted communities to riparian forests in the ponderosa pine zone
• Restoring recreational and residential forests
• Determination of fire-initiated landscape patterns: Restoring fire mosaics on the landscape
• Restoring historic landscape patterns through management: Restoring fire mosaics on the landscape
• Whitebark pine ecosystem restoration in western Montana
• Examples of fire restoration in Glacier National Park
• Dealing with public concerns in restoring fire to the forest
• Fire history and landscape restoration in Douglas-fir ecosystems of western Oregon
• Forests of the Oregon Coast Range-considerations for ecological restoration
• Fire in restoration of Oregon white oak woodlands
• Fire regimes and restoration needs in southwest Oregon
• Restoring fire to mixed conifer forests in the Northern Cascades
• Applying stand replacement prescribed fires in Alaska
• Integrating fire management into land management planning for west-side forests
• Can we restore the fire process? What awaits us if we don't?

Citation

Hardy, Colin C.; Arno, Stephen F., eds. 1996. The use of fire in forest restoration. Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-GTR-341. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station. 86 p.