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Prescribed fire effects in the Panhandle area, Crater Lake National Park
Klamath Waters Digital Library
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Prescribed fire effects in the Panhandle area, Crater Lake National Park |
| Creator | Swezy, Michael; Agee, James K |
| Date | 1988 2008-07-14 2008-09-10 |
| Subject | Prescribed burning -- Oregon -- Crater Lake National Park; Fire ecology -- Oregon -- Crater Lake National Park; Forest management -- Oregon -- Crater Lake National Park; Ponderosa pine -- Losses -- Oregon -- Crater Lake National Park; Crater Lake National Park (Oregon) |
| Description | ill., maps; Final report in partial satisfaction of cooperative agreement CA-9000-8-0007, subagreement 7, National Park Service, Pacific Northwest Region; "Autumn 1988." EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Previous vegetation and fire history studies of the Panhandle area of Crater Lake National Park showed that nearly 80 years of fire suppression had altered the structure and composition of the mixed conifer forests found there (McNeil and Zobel 1981). A program to restore primeval forest conditions in the Panhandle by use of prescribed fire was begun in 1976 and has continued successfully to the present. Although the program has generally been effective at meeting... TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Introduction 1 Research Summary • 3 Stand History Maps 3 Ponderosa Pine Mortality Survey 3 Duff Moisture 14 Experimental Burn Effects 17 Management Recommendations .26 Burning Intervals .27 Burning Prescriptions 28 Monitoring 29 High Risk Trees and Protective Measures 30 Further Research 31 Summary Comments 32 Literature Cited 34 |
| Source | Originally published as: Prescribed fire effects in the Panhandle area, Crater Lake National Park (Seattle, Wash. : National Park Service Cooperative Park Studies Unit, College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, 1988); 34 leaves; 28 cm. |
| Contributor | National Park Service Cooperative Park Studies Unit Cooperative Park Studies Unit (Seattle, Wash.); United States. National Park Service. Pacific Northwest Region |
| Publisher | Oregon Institute of Technology. Library |
| Relation | Digital reproduction of: : http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20189254 CPSU UW ; 89-1 Mode of access: Adobe Acrobat Reader |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf PDF file size: 5,152,768 bytes Master file format: image/tiff; master file size: 1,322,374,246 bytes; bit depth: 16; color mode: color; resolution: 600 dpi; capture hardware: Plustek OpticBook 3600; optimization software: Adobe Photoshop CS3 |
| Language | eng |
| Rights | Digital image copyright 2008. Oregon Institute of Technology. All rights reserved. http://digitallib.oit.edu/cdm/copyright/collection/craterlake |
| Identifier | CLNP-14-Jul-2008-20 http://digitallib.oit.edu/cdm/ref/collection/craterlake/id/3 |
