Description
New data on how North American forests looked centuries ago are fueling a debate on what ecologists should aim for when restoring ailing ecosystems.
Document
Title
Returning America's forests to their 'natural' roots Document Type: Journal Article
Author(s): K. Kloor
Publication Year: 2000
Cataloging Information
Keyword(s):
- Arizona
- catastrophic fires
- coniferous forests
- cover type conversion
- crown fires
- dendrochronology
- distribution
- ecosystem dynamics
- fire hazard reduction
- fire management
- fire suppression
- forest management
- grasslands
- grazing
- histories
- Juniperus osteosperma
- lightning caused fires
- logging
- Montana
- national forests
- Native Americans
- Nevada
- old growth forests
- paleoecology
- Pinus ponderosa
- population density
- population ecology
- presettlement vegetation
- roots
- stand characteristics
- succession
- thinning
- Utah
- wildfires
- Wyoming
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Record Last Modified: June 1, 2018
FRAMES Record Number: 44059
Tall Timbers Record Number: 19359
TTRS Location Status: In-file
TTRS Call Number: Fire File
TTRS Abstract Status: Okay, Fair use, Reproduced by permission
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Citation:
Kloor, K. 2000. Returning America's forests to their 'natural' roots. Science, v. 287, p. 573-575.