Restoring historic landscape patterns through management: Restoring fire mosaics on the landscape

Cathy Stewart

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Restoring historic landscape patterns through management: Restoring fire mosaics on the landscape

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Cathy Stewart

Year:

1996

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

In: Hardy, Colin C.; Arno, Stephen F., eds. 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. p. 49-50.

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Abstract

Seral, fire dependent lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl.) communities are an important component of upper elevation forests throughout the Northern Rockies, where they cover 4 million acres, or about 17 percent of the land base. On the Bitterroot National Forest, lodgepole pine occurs mostly between 5,500 and 7,500 feet.

Parent Publication

The use of fire in forest restoration

Keywords

fire ecology, fire regimes, forest restoration, landscape patterns, lodgepole pine, Pinus contorta Dougl, Northern Rockies

Citation

Stewart, Cathy. 1996. Restoring historic landscape patterns through management: Restoring fire mosaics on the landscape. In: Hardy, Colin C.; Arno, Stephen F., eds. 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. p. 49-50.