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Author(s):
James M. Peek, Raymond A. Demarchi, Dennis A. Demarchi
Year Published:

Cataloging Information

Topic(s):
Fire Effects
Ecological - Second Order
Vegetation
Wildlife
Fire & Wildlife
Mammals
Ungulates
Ecosystem(s):
Montane dry mixed-conifer forest, Ponderosa pine woodland/savanna, Mountain shrubland/wooded draw, Sagebrush steppe, Lower montane/foothills/valley grassland

NRFSN number: 11057
FRAMES RCS number: 12619
Record updated:

Responses of seven bighorn sheep populations and habitats to prescribed fire and wildfire in southern British Columbia, Idaho, and Glacier National Park ranged from no influence to increase; interacting factors such as lungworm infection, livestock grazing, and reduction in forage overrode potential benefits of subsequent increases in production and nutritive content of forages. A list of factors to be considered before prescribed fire is used in bighorn habitats is provided.

Citation

Peek, J. M., D. A. Demarchi, R. A. Demarchi, Stucker, D. E. 1985. Bighorn sheep and fire: seven case histories. In: Lotan, James E.; Brown, James K. (compilers). Fire's effects on wildlife habitat - symposium proceedings; 1984 March 21; Missoula, MT. Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-GTR-186. Ogden, UT: USDA Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station. p. 36-43.