Prescribed Burning For Laurel and Rhodendron Control in the Southern appalachians

Ralph M. Hooper

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Prescribed Burning For Laurel and Rhodendron Control in the Southern appalachians

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Ralph M. Hooper

Year:

1969

Type:

Research Note

Station:

Southern Research Station

Source:

Res. Note SE-116. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station. 6 p.

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Abstract

Prescribed fire shows promise as a tool for the control of laurel and rhododendron in the Southern Appalachian mountains. A recent prescribed fire killed the tops of 70 percent of ail laurel under 0.5 inch d.b.h. and 70 percent of the rhododendron under 1 inch d.b.h. Seventeen months after the bum, almost all of the top-killed laurel and rhododendron have resprouted; but many of the white pine planted after the burn will also survive.

Citation

Hooper, Ralph M. 1969. Prescribed Burning For Laurel and Rhodendron Control in the Southern appalachians. Res. Note SE-116. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station. 6 p.