The Effects of Fire on Virgin Northern Mixed Grassland at Custer Battlefield National Monument, Final Report
Bock JH, Bock CE, O'Shea Stone M. 1987. The Effects of Fire on Virgin Northern Mixed Grassland at Custer Battlefield National Monument, Final Report. Boulder, CO
This report describes our three year study on the effects of wildfire at Custer National Monument near Crow Agency, Montana. A wildfire of undetermined origin, which occurred on 10 August, 1983, burned 220 ha (approximately 90%) of the Monument (see Figure 1, Section I). Although no data are available on fire intensity, the ambient conditions were remembered as hot, dry, and windy. An examination of photos shows that the fire killed virtually all above-ground vegetation (see Figures 2 and 3, Section I)