Burning Under Old-Growth Ponderosa Pines On Lava Soils
Fule PZ, Verkamp G, Waltz AE, Covington WW. 2003. Burning Under Old-Growth Ponderosa Pines On Lava Soils. Fire Management Today. 63(3):47-49
Every year, fire managers successfully restore surface fires to ponderosa pine forests that have not burned for a century or more. Nevertheless the power of fire can have unanticipated effects on stressed trees. In northern Arizona, an episode of unusual old-growth tree mortality, after two prescribed bums on shallow volcanic soils, provided managers with a learning opportunity and a lesson in caution.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Fule, Peter; Verkamp, Greg; Waltz, Amy; Covington, W.
- Units
- PARA
- Keywords
- Fire, Lava Soil, Mortality, Mt. Trumbull, Ponderosa Pine, Thinning