Progress Report on the Research Project Entitled Long Term Post-Fire Vegetation Monitoring of the Recent Stanley Ridge Burn in Isle Royale National Park
Janke RA. 1993. Progress Report on the Research Project Entitled Long Term Post-Fire Vegetation Monitoring of the Recent Stanley Ridge Burn in Isle Royale National Park. Michigan Technological University. Houghton, MI
This report summarizes the results of the 1992 post-fire vegetation sampling on the Stanley Ridge burn in Isle Royale National Park, a prescribed natural fire which occurred during the summer of 1988. The burn covered approximately 75 acres of the Stanley Ridge. This was the second vegetation sampling effort following that burn. Ten plot reference points were established in the jack pine (Pinus banksiana) forested portion of the burn, and 10 additional reference points were established within the open rocky meadow on the south-east facing slope of the ridge. Counts of tree and tall shrub species of sapling and tree size were made within plots and stems were checked for moose browse. Percent cover of ground cover plants was estimated. No woody plants in the tree stage of development were found in the sampling areas. Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) continued to have the greatest sapling density, although it was found only on the ridge top. Seedlings of tree and tall shrub species increased considerably between 1991 and 1992. Moose browsed on all the seedling and sapling species except jack pine. Most ground cover species increased in density between 1991 and 1992; on the ridge top blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium) still dominated, while serviceberry (Amelanchier sp.) dominated on the open southeast slope.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Janke, Robert
- Date of Issue
- 1993-03
- Publisher
- Michigan Technological University
- Units
- ISRO
- Keywords
- Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Flora, Isle Royale National Park, Michigan, Plants, Vegetation Monitoring