Document

Title

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]
Document Type: Journal Article
Author(s): Stephen W. Barrett
Publication Year: 2000

Cataloging Information

Keyword(s):
  • 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
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Record Maintained By:
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Record Last Modified: May 22, 2019
FRAMES Record Number: 40939
Tall Timbers Record Number: 15754
TTRS Location Status: In-file
TTRS Call Number: A13.32:60/3
TTRS Abstract Status: Fair use, Okay, Reproduced by permission

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Description

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.'

Online Link(s):
Link to the full Fire Management Today issue (1 MB; pdf)
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.