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Course
Type: FireWorks activities
Availability: Public access
Date Created: June 28, 2017
Ongoing
Author(s):
- FireWorks Educational Program
Contact(s):
- Ilana L. AbrahamsonUS 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.
Online Link(s):
E11: Bakers Cypress Serotiny - Lesson Plan (213 KB; pdf)
E11: Lotsa Seeds (341 KB; ppt)
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Keywords:
- cone serotiny
- regeneration
- seeds
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FRAMES Record Number: 24525