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Type: Conference Paper
Publication Date: 2005
The Healthy Forest Restoration Act (H. R. 1904) allows for increases in hazardous fuel reduction activities throughout much of the western USA. Our laboratory is currently conducting several studies to determine the short and long‐term implications to forest health of prescribed fire and/or mechanical fuel treatments in the large‐scale restoration of fire‐adapted forest ecosystems
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Citation: Fettog, ChristopherJ. 2005. The effects of hazardous fuel reduction treatment on the amount of bark beetle-caused tree mortality in Sierra Nevada, USA, Proceedings of the Joint 2004 Canadian Institute of Forestry and Society of American Foresters Annual Convention [CD-ROM]. Edmonton, Alberta. Society of American Foresters,
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Keywords:
- Abies concolor
- bark
- biomass
- catastrophic fires
- competition
- coniferous forests
- Dendroctonus brevicomis
- Dendroctonus jeffreyi
- Dendroctonus ponderosae
- fire hazard reduction
- fire management
- forest products
- fuel loading
- Healthy Forests Initiative
- insects
- Ips
- mortality
- National Fire Plan
- Nevada
- Pinus jeffreyi
- Pinus ponderosa
- plant diseases
- population density
- Scolytidae
- Sierra Nevada
- site treatments
- size classes
- slash
- succession
- thinning
- wildfires
Tall Timbers Record Number: 17662 • Location Status: In-file • Call Number: Fire File and Journals-S • Abstract Status: Fair use, Okay, Reproduced by permission
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FRAMES Record Number: 42561
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