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Type: Conference Paper
Author(s): Richard D. Laven; Philip N. Omi; James G. Wyant; A. S. Pinkerton
Editor(s): Marvin A. Stokes; John H. Dieterich
Publication Date: 1980

Fire scar data from twenty ponderosa pine trees located in the Central Rocky Mountains, Colorado, were used to determine fire frequences by historical era, fire size, topographic position and slope aspect. The average mean interval between fires in somewhat larger than in other parts of ponderosa pine's range.

Citation: Laven, R. D., P. N. Omi, J. G. Wyant, and A. S. Pinkerton. 1980. Interpretation of fire scar data from a Ponderosa pine ecosystem in the Central Rocky Mountains, Colorado. Page 20 in Stokes, M. A. and Dieterich, J. H., Proceedings of the Fire History Workshop, October 20-24, 1980, Tucson, AZ. General Technical Report RM-GTR-81. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Ft. Collins, CO. 142 p.

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Keywords:
  • age classes
  • Colorado
  • dendrochronology
  • distribution
  • ecosystem dynamics
  • European settlement
  • fire frequency
  • fire regimes
  • fire scar analysis
  • fire size
  • fire suppression
  • histories
  • human caused fires
  • mosaic
  • mountains
  • national forests
  • Native Americans
  • pine
  • Pinus ponderosa
  • presettlement fires
  • regeneration
  • sampling
  • sloping terrain
  • topography
  • trees
Tall Timbers Record Number: 169Location Status: In-fileCall Number: A13.88:RM-81Abstract Status: Fair use, Okay, Reproduced by permission
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FRAMES Record Number: 26465

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