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Type: FireWorks activities
Availability: Public access
Date Created: July 7, 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: 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.

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Keywords:
  • dendrochronology
  • fire regimes
  • increment cores
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FRAMES Record Number: 24559