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Project
- James D. HaywoodUS Forest Service, Southern Research Station
- Richard A. Goyer
Forest managers wishing to restore upland loblolly pine-hardwood forests to longleaf pine often have stands with poorly developed herbaceous plant communities and dense understories of shrubs and vines. Subsequently, sites newly planted to longleaf pine, following harvesting and site preparation, will not burn evenly or with enough intensity because they do not have the necessary fine fuel bed to carry a fire. Instead, aggressive hardwood sprouts and seedlings of other pine species encroach. We believe this vegetation will again form a midstory with draped and laddered fuels creating a high fire danger even though a prescribed burning program was initiated. To study this possibility, we will evaluate changes in fuel load conditions on recently harvested upland loblolly pine-hardwood sites over time.
Cataloging Information
- bark beetle
- loblolly pine
- longleaf pine
- mechanical treatments
- Pinus palustris
- Pinus taeda
- vegetation surveys
- 00-2-06