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Type: FireWorks activities
Availability: Public access
Date Created: June 28, 2017
Ongoing
Author(s):
  • FireWorks Educational Program
Contact(s):
  • Ilana L. Abrahamson
    US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program

Lesson Overview: In this activity, students extract seeds from serotinous cones, count them, and estimate the number of seeds that might fall in an area after a large, severe fire.

Lesson Goal: Students will understand that Baker cypress and knobcone pine cones are serotinous and need wildland fire to open their cones and release their seeds. Thus they can establish a new forest after fire.

Objectives:

  • Students can identify filled vs. empty seeds.
  • Students can explain the importance of fire and serotiny for regeneration of knobcone pine and Baker cypress.
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Keywords:
  • cone serotiny
  • regeneration
  • seeds
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Record Maintained By: FRAMES Staff (https://www.frames.gov/contact)
FRAMES Record Number: 24525