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Robert E. Keane
Wildfire in declining whitebark pine forests can be a tool for ecosystem restoration or an ecologically harmful event. This document presents a set of possible wildfire management practices for facilitating the restoration of whitebark pine across its ra...
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Sparkle L. Malone, Paula J. Fornwalt, Mike A. Battaglia, Marin E. Chambers, Jose M. Iniguez and Carolyn H. Sieg
We examined spatial patterns of post-fire regenerating conifers in a Colorado, USA, dry conifer forest 11?12 years following the reintroduction of mixed-severity fire. We mapped and measured all post-fire regenerating conifers, as well as all other post-...
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Pradip Saud, Douglas Cram, Samuel Smallidge and Terrell Baker
Coarse woody debris (CWD) is an important component in the structure and function of southwestern mixed-conifer forest ecosystems. However, fire suppression and exclusion policies have changed the structure and fuel loads, including CWD, during the last ...
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Paula J. Fornwalt, Camille S. Stevens-Rumann and Byron J. Collins
The 2002 Hayman Fire burned with mixed-severity across a 400-ha dry conifer study site in Colorado, USA, where overstory tree and surface cover attributes had been recently measured on 20 0.1-ha permanent plots. We remeasured these plots repeatedly durin...
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Brenda Shepherd, Brad Jones, Robert Sissons, Jed Cochrane, Jane Park, Cyndi M. Smith and Natalie Stafl
Whitebark pine forests are declining due to infection by white pine blister rust and mountain pine beetle, combined with the effects of climate change and fire suppression. The Canadian Rocky and Columbia Mountains represent a large portion of the whiteb...
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