Title:

Lick Creek historic photographic series: a century of change in a ponderosa pine forest in western Montana, US

Author(s):

Hood, Sharon M.; Lutes, Duncan C.; Crotteau, Justin S.; Keyes, Christopher R.; Sala, Anna; Harrington, Michael G.; Munger, Gregory T.

Publication Year:

2018

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Hood, Sharon M.; Lutes, Duncan C.; Crotteau, Justin S.; Keyes, Christopher R.; Sala, Anna; Harrington, Michael G.; Munger, Gregory T. 2018. Lick Creek historic photographic series: a century of change in a ponderosa pine forest in western Montana, US. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. Updated 04 June 2019. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2018-0023

Abstract:

This photoseries contains 14 photopoints from the Lick Creek Demonstration/Research Forest where repeat photographs document forest change from 1909 through 2016 following harvesting, prescribed burning, and succession. The Lick Creek site is a managed ponderosa pine forest, located in the Bitterroot Mountains within the Bitterroot National Forest in Western Montana. These photoseries document forest change typical of dry ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Lawson & C. Lawson var. ponderosa C. Lawson) forests in the West when fire is excluded. In 1909, the Forest Service sent a Washington Office photographer to document the sale using a view box camera and glass plates. In 1925, many of the original photograph locations were re-located and 13 were permanently monumented in 1938. A 14th location was re-located in 2015. Photographs from most of the photopoints were taken in 1909, 1925-1927, 1937-1938, 1948, 1958, 1968, 1979, 1989, 1997, 2009, 2015, and 2016.

Keywords:

biota; environment; vegetation; fire exclusion; ponderosa pine; Pinus ponderosa; Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir; Pseudotsuga menziesii; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Fire; Fire suppression, pre-suppression; Inventory, Monitoring, & Analysis; Monitoring; Montana; United States; Bitterroot National Forest

Related publications:

• Crotteau, Justin S.; Hood, Sharon M.; Lutes, Duncan C.; Keyes, Christopher R.; Sala, Anna; Harrington, Michael G. 2018. Management and succession at the Lick Creek Demonstration/Research Forest, Montana. Journal of Forestry. https://doi.org/10.1093/jofore/fvy030
• Smith, Helen Y.; Arno, Stephen F. 1999. Eighty-eight years of change in a managed ponderosa pine forest. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-23. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 55 p. https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/28424 https://doi.org/10.2737/rmrs-gtr-23
• Gruell, George E.; Schmidt, Wyman C.; Arno, Stephen F.; Reich, William J. 1982. Seventy years of vegetative change in a managed ponderosa pine forest in Western Montana—Implications for resource management. Gen. Tech. Rep. GTR-INT-130. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.100179

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