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Type: Journal Article
Author(s): Stephen W. Barrett
Publication Date: 2000

From the text ... 'Crossing the Bitterroot Mountains on the Lolo Trail was a daunting experience for the historic Lewis and Clark Expedition. ...Historically, fires occurred somewhere along the 50-mile trail corridor at least every two decades, on average... Over the last five centuries, six or seven major fires produced the bulk of today's forest age class mosaic along the Lolo Trail. ...The ancient Lolo Trail passed through a diverse forest mosaic, including immature stands difficult to traverse due to heavy postfire snagfalls and dense regeneration.'

Citation: Barrett, S. W. 2000. Fire history along the ancient Lolo Trail [including: Burning by American Indians in the northern Rockies and Fire use in James Fenimore Cooper's The Prairie]. Fire Management Today, v. 60, no. 3, p. 21-28.

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Topics:
Climate    Fire Behavior    Fire Ecology    Fire Effects    Fire History    Fire Occurrence    Fire Prevention    Fuels    Hazard and Risk    Mapping
Regions:
Alaska    California    Eastern    Great Basin    Hawaii    Northern Rockies    Northwest    Rocky Mountain    Southern    Southwest    National
Keywords:
  • Abies grandis
  • Abies lasiocarpa
  • age classes
  • catastrophic fires
  • clearcutting
  • dead fuels
  • dendrochronology
  • droughts
  • ecosystem dynamics
  • fire exclusion
  • fire frequency
  • fire injuries (plants)
  • fire intensity
  • fire management
  • fire regimes
  • fire scar analysis
  • fire suppression
  • forest management
  • fuel accumulation
  • histories
  • Idaho
  • landscape ecology
  • Larix occidentalis
  • lightning caused fires
  • logging
  • montane forests
  • mosaic
  • mountains
  • national forests
  • Native Americans
  • Picea engelmannii
  • pine forests
  • Pinus contorta
  • Pinus monticola
  • post fire recovery
  • presettlement fires
  • Pseudotsuga menziesii
  • regeneration
  • riparian habitats
  • Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas
  • subalpine forests
  • succession
  • thinning
  • Thuja plicata
  • Tsuga mertensiana
  • Washington
  • Xerophyllum tenax
Tall Timbers Record Number: 15754 • Location Status: In-file • Call Number: A13.32:60/3 • Abstract Status: Fair use, Okay, Reproduced by permission
Record Last Modified:
Record Maintained By: FRAMES Staff (https://www.frames.gov/contact)
FRAMES Record Number: 40939

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