Rocky Mountain Research Station

Title: The use of fire in forest restoration

Author: Hardy, Colin C.; Arno, Stephen F., eds.

Date: 1996

Source: Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-GTR-341. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station. 86 p.

Station ID: GTR-INT-341

Description: The 26 papers in this document address the current knowledge of fire as a disturbance agent, fire history and fire regimes, applications of prescribed fire for ecological restoration, and the effects of fire on the various forested ecosystems of the north-western United States. The main body of this document is organized in three sections: Assessing Needs for Fire in Restoration; Restoration of Fire in Inland Forests; and Restoration in Pacific Westside Forests. These papers comprise the proceedings from a general technical conference at the 1995 Annual Meeting of the Society for Ecological Restoration, held at the University of Washington, Seattle, September 14-16, 1995.

Keywords: fire ecology, fire regimes, forest restoration, disturbance, prescribed fire

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Hardy, Colin C.; Arno, Stephen F., eds.  1996.  The use of fire in forest restoration.   Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-GTR-341. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station. 86 p..