Fire Ecology of the Forest Habitat Types of Central IdahoU.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station, 1986 - Fire ecology - 86 pages "Discusses fire as an ecological factor for forest habitat types occurring in central Idaho. Identifies "Fire Groups" of habitat types based on fire's role in forest succession. Considerations for fire management are suggested." |
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... duff , understory plants , and foliage on understory trees . If fuel ladders exist , individual trees or groups of overstory trees may torch out . A severe fire is one that burns through the overstory , consumes large woody surface ...
... duff , understory plants , and foliage on understory trees . If fuel ladders exist , individual trees or groups of overstory trees may torch out . A severe fire is one that burns through the overstory , consumes large woody surface ...
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... duff ( USDA - FS 1965 ) . Decay fungi often enter trees through fire scars ( Aho 1977 ) . All factors considered , grand fir is not benefited by fire in central Idaho nearly as much as its competitors . Fisher ( 1935 ) compared ...
... duff ( USDA - FS 1965 ) . Decay fungi often enter trees through fire scars ( Aho 1977 ) . All factors considered , grand fir is not benefited by fire in central Idaho nearly as much as its competitors . Fisher ( 1935 ) compared ...
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... duff , physiological stage of the plant , and the severity of the fire , especially in terms of the amount of heat that travels downward through the duff and upper layer of soil . Table 3 ( Con . ) Species Fire Group ( 8.
... duff , physiological stage of the plant , and the severity of the fire , especially in terms of the amount of heat that travels downward through the duff and upper layer of soil . Table 3 ( Con . ) Species Fire Group ( 8.
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... duff is moist and therefore not consumed by fire . May invade burned area from unburned patches . Very susceptible to fire - kill . Recovery is hastened when a good seed crop exists before burning . Moderately resistant to fire - kill ...
... duff is moist and therefore not consumed by fire . May invade burned area from unburned patches . Very susceptible to fire - kill . Recovery is hastened when a good seed crop exists before burning . Moderately resistant to fire - kill ...
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... duff or heat soil extensively . Sorbus scopulina 2,3,4,5,6,7 , mountain ash 8,9,10 3,4,5,6,7,8 Symphoricarpos albus ... duff layer or at surface of soil . Sprouts from short shallow rhizome . Short , compact surface rhizomes . Airborne ...
... duff or heat soil extensively . Sorbus scopulina 2,3,4,5,6,7 , mountain ash 8,9,10 3,4,5,6,7,8 Symphoricarpos albus ... duff layer or at surface of soil . Sprouts from short shallow rhizome . Short , compact surface rhizomes . Airborne ...
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ABGR ABLA ABSENCE OF FIRE arnica Arno central Idaho Challis Climax forest conifer COOL FIRE dense Department of Agriculture dominated Douglas-fir Douglas-fir habitat types duff Engelmann spruce Fire Management Considerations following fire forbs Forest and Range Forest Service forest succession fuel loads grand fir grass grassland huckleberry impervious to fire increase Intermountain Forest limber pine lodgepole pine MODERATE SEVERITY moist Montana mountain pine beetle National Forest NUMBER occur Ogden Open Northern Rockies open stands Payette National Forest phase Abies Physiographic sections PICO PIEN pinegrass PIPO or PSME ponderosa pine postfire prescribed fire Pseudotsuga menziesii Range Experiment Station regen regeneration rhizomes Salmon Uplands seed Seedlings & saplings seral species severe fire shrubs snags snowberry Southern Batholith Sprouts from surviving stand-destroying STAND-REPLACEMENT FIRE subalpine fir successional pathways successional stages surviving root crown Technical Report U.S. Department undergrowth understory Vaccinium Vaccinium scoparium vegetation Wallowa-Seven Devils western whitebark pine wildfire wildlife woody fuel