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  1. Guide to understory burning in ponderosa pine-larch-fir forests in the Intermountain West

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    Author(s): Bruce M. Kilgore; George A. Curtis
    Date: 1987
    Source: General Technical Report INT-233. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station. 39 p.
    Publication Series: General Technical Report (GTR)
    Station: Intermountain Forest Experiment Station
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.2737/INT-GTR-233
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    Summarizes the objectives, prescriptions, and techniques used in prescribed burning beneath the canopy of ponderosa pine stands, and stands of ponderosa pine mixed with western larch, Douglas-fir, and grand fir. Information was derived from 12 districts in two USDA Forest Service Regions and seven National Forests in Montana and Oregon.

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    Kilgore, Bruce M.; Curtis, George A. 1987. Guide to understory burning in ponderosa pine-larch-fir forests in the Intermountain West. General Technical Report INT-233. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station. 39 p.

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    fire prescriptions, ignition techniques, fire management, prescribed fire, site preparation, fuel management, silviculture, ponderosa pine, western larch, grand fir, forest management

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