Short-Term Wildlife Responses To Ponderosa Pine Forest Restoration Treatments On The Mt. Trumbull Area, Arizona Annual Progress Report October 1, 2004 - September 31, 2005
Wightman CS and Yarborough RF. 2005. Short-Term Wildlife Responses To Ponderosa Pine Forest Restoration Treatments On The Mt. Trumbull Area, Arizona Annual Progress Report October 1, 2004 - September 31, 2005. Arizona Game and Fish Department Research Branch. Phoenix, Arizona
Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests of the southwestern U.S. have changed dramatically over the past century, primarily in response to grazing, logging, and fire suppression pressures (Covington and Moore 1994). Currently, ponderosa pine forests tend to be composed of single age stands, which lack structural and composition diversity. These homogeneous, crowded forests are stressed by competition for resources and bark beetle infestations, and are increasingly vulnerable to uncharacteristic, high intensity wildfire. High intensity wildfires can be devastating to Northern Arizona’s communities and forests, as the 460,000-acre Rodeo-Chediski fire in 2002 demonstrated. As a result, forest restoration treatments are gaining attention as a forest management tool for reducing fire risk and improving ecological function of the forest.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Wightman, Catherine; Yarborough, R.
- Date of Issue
- 2005
- Publisher
- Arizona Game and Fish Department Research Branch
- Units
- PARA
- Keywords
- Forest Restoration, Mt. Trumbull, Ponderosa Pine, Wildlife