Year Published:
Cataloging Information
Topic(s):
Fuels
Fuel Treatments & Effects
Prescribed Fire-use treatments
Fuel Treatments & Effects
Prescribed Fire-use treatments
Ecosystem(s):
Montane dry mixed-conifer forest
NRFSN number: 11113
FRAMES RCS number: 12645
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Guidelines are offered for safe, effective fire treatments in western larch/Douglas-fir forests. Describes procedures for estimating and limiting the scorching of tree crows. Provides a method for predicting percentage of the forest floor that will be burned down to mineral soil.
Citation
Norum, Rodney A. 1977. Preliminary guidelines for prescribed burning under standing timber in western larch/Douglas-fir forests. Res. Note INT-229. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Range and Forest Experiment Station.15 p.