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Type: Book Chapter
Editor(s): Raymond Jaindl; Thomas M. Quigley
Publication Date: 1986
[From the introduction] Fire has been an important disturbance process for millennia in the wildlands of the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon and southeastern Washington. Records from early explorers and on many older trees suggest that fires burned at frequent intervals in many Blue Mountain forests and grasslands. ... Solutions to the forest health situation in the Blue Mountains will require both scientific and value decisions. This chapter focuses on the former: fire history and effects, with discussion of changes over the past century or more.
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Citation: Agee, James K. 1996. Fire in the Blue Mountains: a history, ecology, and research agenda. Chapter 7 (pages 119-145) in Jaindl, Raymond and Quigley, Thomas M. (editors): Search for a solution: sustaining the land, people, and economy of the Blue Mountains. Washington, D.C.: American Forests in cooperation with the Blue Mountains Natural Resources Institute. 316 p.
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- Abies grandis
- Abies lasiocarpa
- Agropyron spicatum
- air quality
- bark
- bibliographies
- Blue Mountains
- community ecology
- crown fires
- disturbance
- Douglas-fir
- ecology
- ecosystem dynamics
- Festuca idahoensis
- Festuca viridula
- fire adaptations
- fire frequency
- fire intensity
- fire regimes
- fire size
- forbs
- grand fir
- grasses
- grasslands
- histories
- Juniperus occidentalis
- landscape ecology
- Larix occidentalis
- montane forests
- mountain hemlock
- mountains
- Oregon
- overstory
- pine forests
- Pinus ponderosa
- plant communities
- plant growth
- ponderosa pine
- post-fire recovery
- Pseudotsuga menziesii
- regeneration
- resprouting
- season of fire
- seed dispersal
- seed dormancy
- shrublands
- size classes
- smoke effects
- soils
- species diversity
- subalpine fir
- succession
- surface fires
- Tsuga mertensiana
- understory vegetation
- Washington
- western juniper
- wildfires
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