REN R322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Controlled Burn

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Forms open forests (~60 tph for mature stands) Fine-scale mosaic of stands of varying ages and stages of development. History of selective harvesting of mature pines and larches, intensive grazing, and re suppression have greatly altered this forest landscape (e. g. 2500 tph) Trying to restore these forests for exactly these reasons. Trying to change the public"s view on re (saying we need to let the re regime burn through in a natural way) Implementing management techniques (such as prescribed burning) to improve these forests in a natural way. We are still working to understand patterns and drivers of successional dynamics in forests - particularly effects of disturbance and how species respond. Compare forests (that were burned or disturbed by natural disturbances) in terms of composition, which tree species, density of tree species, how fast they were growing to stands that were harvested and regenerated.

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