At 04:33 AM 7/27/97 -0700, you wrote: >Have there been any studies that demonstrate clearcuts or other >silvicultural systems (ie., shelterwoods) emulate natural disturbances (and >aboriginal burnings) with respect to forest structure and function? If >anyone knows of any salient references, I'd be grateful. > >Thanks in advance. > >Shanfield > > Did forests here change after men came to the Americas? Surely. I regret that I am not nearly as familiar with this literature as I would like to be. Took me a bit of time to find the following: Calvin J. Huesser, Late-Pleistocene Environments of N Pacific N America (what? 14500 years = - before present from fossilized pollen studies), America Geographical Soc., NY 1960. T K Kozlowski and C E Ahlgren (ed), Fire and Ecosystems, 1974. I once heard Professor Kozlowski speak and went out and bought his Growth and Development Of Trees. I can't imagine that Kozlowski could have anything to say about trees that would not be of importance. Mark Finney and Robert Martin, "Short Fire Intervals Recorded At Annadel State Parke, California, Madrono v39n4 pp251..62,1992 A couple of years ago Stephen Arno, USDA Forest Service InterMountain Research Station, PO Box 8089 Missoula MT 59807, sent me the following publications in which he had collaborated in writing: Age-Class Structure of Old Growth Ponderosa P and Douglas Fir Stands and Its Relationship to Fire History, INT-RP-481 4/95 Restoring Fire-Dependent Ponderosa P Forests In W Montana, Reforestation & Management Notes 13:1 Summer '95 Review Draft INT research Paper 1/29/96, Different age-class structures of OG PP and W Larch stands as influenced by fire History Indian Fires As an Ecological Influence In the N Rockies, Jour of Forestry 80:10 /82 also Strategies of Indian Burning In The Willamette Valley, Robert Boyd, Canadian Journal of Anthropology 5:1 fall'86 "the most detailed" Dennis Martinez The Prehistoric Indigenous Fire Regime and Ecological Restoration/Ecosystem Management, 9/95 Soc. for Ecological Restoration Annual Conference, U of WA, Seattle. Someplace there is a good monograph on forest age classes on the sides of Mt Rainier - about a 1000 year spectrum (Dep of Interior or National Park Publication) as I recall. Important topic, good luck George Pope George Pope, 415 574 2799, gpope@cris.com
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