First Year Results: Vegetative Recovery Following 1996 Dome Wildfire: Progress Report
Barclay AM. 1998. First Year Results: Vegetative Recovery Following 1996 Dome Wildfire: Progress Report. University of Arizona, School of Renewable Natural Resources, Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences. Tucson, AZ
In the spring of 1996, the Dome Fire burned nearly 17,000 acres of Bandelier National Monument and Santa Fe National Forest in the Jemez Mountains, north-central New Mexico. Prefire vegetation was predominantly ponderosa pine with mixed conifer at the higher elevations and pinyon-juniper at the lower elevations. The U. S. Forest Service reseeded high and moderate burn intensity areas in SFNF with almost 430 kg of a predominantly annual grass seed mix consisting of 23-30% ryegrass. BNM chose not to reseed their land post-fire. The National Park Service initiated a study in the spring of 1997 to evaluate the post-fire recovery of vegetation. This report describes work conducted in the 1997 and 1998 field seasons, although the results presented are primarily from 1997.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Barclay, Angela
- Date of Issue
- 1998-10
- Publisher
- University of Arizona, School of Renewable Natural Resources, Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
- Units
- BAND
- Keywords
- Fire Effects, Plant Communities, Plant Studies, Ponderosa Pine, Regeneration (Botany), Vegetation Surveys