Title:

Tenderfoot Research Project: Fuel loading and postburn tree mortality data

Author(s):

Glasgow, Lance S.; Smith, Helen Y.; Hood, Sharon M.

Publication Year:

2015

How to Cite:

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Glasgow, Lance S., Smith, Helen Y., Hood, Sharon M. 2015. Tenderfoot Research Project: Fuel loading and postburn tree mortality data. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2015-0008

Abstract:

This product contains fuel loading, overstory tree mortality and burn severity data associated with the Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest Vegetative Treatment Research Project between 2000 and 2009. The project is located on the Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest (TCEF) which is north of White Sulphur Springs, Montana. Experimental shelterwood harvests combined with prescribed burning were implemented in the Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest between 1999 and 2003. These data contain fuel loading measurements collected preharvest/preburn; 1, 2, 3 and 8 years postharvest; as well as 1 and 6 years postburn. Tree diameter, crown scorch, basal charring, ground charring and cambium mortality following fire for mature lodgepole pine, Douglas-fir, subalpine fir, Engelmann spruce and whitebark pine trees were measured. Tree mortality was also recorded 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 years after fire.

Keywords:

Pinus contorta; Abies lasiocarpa; Picea engelmannii; Pinus albicaulis; Pseudotsuga menziesii; lodgepole pine; subalpine fir; Engelmann spruce; whitebark pine; Douglas-fir; tree mortality; fuel loading; environment; biota; Fire; Fire ecology; Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest; Montana; Little Belt Mountains; Lewis & Clark National Forest

Related publications:

• Hood, Sharon M.; Smith, Helen Y.; Wright, David K.; Glasgow, Lance S. 2012. Management guide to ecosystem restoration treatments: two-aged lodgepole pine forests of central Montana, USA. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-294. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 126 p. https://doi.org/10.2737/RMRS-GTR-294
• Hardy, Colin C.; Smith, Helen Y.; McCaughey, Ward W. 2006. The Use of Silviculture and Prescribed Fire to Manage Stand Structure and Fuel Profiles in a Multi-aged Lodgepole Pine Forest. In: Andrews, Patricia L.; Butler, Bret W., comps. 2006. Fuels Management-How to Measure Success: Conference Proceedings. 28-30 March 2006; Portland, OR. Proceedings RMRS-P-41. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 451-464. https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/25969
• McCaughey, Ward W.; Martin, Steven J.; Blomquist, Dean A. 2006. Two-aged silvicultural treatments in lodgepole pine stands can be economically viable. Res. Note. RMRS-RN-29. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 7 p. https://doi.org/10.2737/RMRS-RN-29
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