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Course
Type: FireWorks activities
Availability: Public access
Date Created: July 7, 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: Students learn how to use increment cores from trees to discover the history of stand-replacing fire in a forest. They use what they have learned in both this activity and the previous one to depict how fire history influences the composition and structure of forest over a landscape.
Lesson Goals: Understand how to discover the history of stand-replacing disturbances in a forest. Understand that many forests have a history of both low-severity and stand replacing fire. Be able to depict a forest based on a description of its fire history.
Objectives:
- Students can depict the structure and appearance of forests that haveexperienced low-severity and stand-replacing fire.
Online Link(s):
M18: Fire History 2 - Stand Replacing Fire - Lesson Plan (1.3 MB; pdf)
Handout M18-1 (745 KB; pdf)
M18: Data From Soda Straw And Dot Diagram 2 (1.87 MB; ppt)
Skinner And Chang 1996 Fire Regimes (235 KB; pdf)
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Keywords:
- dendrochronology
- fire regimes
- increment cores
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FRAMES Record Number: 24559