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Type: Conference Paper
Coordinator(s): James K. Brown; Robert W. Mutch; C. Phillip Weatherspoon; Ronald H. Wakimoto
Publication Date: 1995
Area burned and smoke emissions were compared between the presettlement period (before 1935) and the recent period (1979-90) of prescribed natural fire in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. Presettlement area burned was estimated to be 1.7 times that during the recent period. By fire-severity classes, stand-replacement fire was 1.5 times greater and nonlethal understory fire 1.9 times greater during presettlement. Smoke emission estimates were 1.3 times greater during presettlement. Duration of smoke events since 1960 in downwind valley towns was determined. No difference in smoke occurrence was observed between periods managed under a full suppression policy (1960-71) and prescribed natural fire policy.
Citation: Brown, J. K., S. F. Arno, L. S. Bradshaw, and J. P. Menakis. 1995. Comparing the Selway-Bitterroot Fire Program with presettlement fires, in Brown, J. K., Mutch, R. W., Spoon, C. W., and Wakimoto, R. H., Proceedings: symposium on fire in wilderness and park management. Missoula, MT. USDA Forest Service, Internountain Research Station,Ogden, UT. p. 48-54,General Technical Report INT-GTR-320.
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Keywords:
- Abies grandis
- catastrophic fires
- coniferous forests
- crown fires
- elevation
- fire hazard reduction
- fire intensity
- fire management
- fire regimes
- fire size
- fire suppression
- forest management
- GIS
- Larix lyallii
- Montana
- Picea engelmannii
- Pinus albicaulis
- Pinus contorta
- Pinus ponderosa
- presettlement fires
- Pseudotsuga menziesii
- Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas
- suppression
- surface fires
- Thuja plicata
- understory vegetation
- wildfires
Tall Timbers Record Number: 23769 • Location Status: In-file • Call Number: A13.88:INT-320 • Abstract Status: Fair use, Okay, Reproduced by permission
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