Progress Report on the Research Project Entitled (Final Version) Long Term Post-Fire Monitoring of the Recent McGintys Cove Burn in Isle Royale National Park
Janke RE. 1998. Progress Report on the Research Project Entitled (Final Version) Long Term Post-Fire Monitoring of the Recent McGintys Cove Burn in Isle Royale National Park. Houghton, MI
This report deals with the most recent monitoring (Summer, 1997) of the vegetation on a small recently burned area on Isle Royale National Park. The burn occurred in 1975 on a steep slope of a ridge near McGintys cove on the northwest shore and at the southwest end of Isle Royale. The approximate area of the burn was 2 acres. It was a natural lightning-caused fire which the National Park Service allowed to continue to burn to a natural extinction. During the summer of 1977 we established permanent vegetation plots on the burn site so that successional changes could be monitored. These were randomly located along a series of equally-spaced parallel lines. The vegetation in the plots has been monitored in the summers of 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1990, 1997.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Janke, R
- Date of Issue
- 1998-03
- Units
- ISRO
- Keywords
- FIRE, Fire Effects, fire effects monitoring, fire monitoring, McGinty Cove, McGinty's Cove, Monitoring, Plant Communities, Vegetation, Vegetation Monitoring