Management guide to ecosystem restoration treatments
Subtitle: whitebark pine forests of the northern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A.
By: Robert E. Keane, Russell A. Parsons
Contributors: Parsons, Russell A.; Rocky Mountain Research Station (Fort Collins, Colo.)
Series: General technical report RMRS -- GTR-232; General technical report RMRS -- GTR-232.
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Fort Collins, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 133
Other titles: Whitebark pine forests of the northern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A.
Description: Whitebark pine is declining across much of its range in North America because of the combined effects of mountain pine beetle epidemics, fire exclusion policies, and widespread exotic blister rust infections. This management guide summarizes the extensive data collected at whitebark pine treatment sites for three periods: (1) pre-treatment, (2) 1 year post-treatment, and (3) 5 years post-treatment (one site has a 10 year post-treatment measurement). Study results are organized here so that managers can identify possible effects of a treatment at their own site by matching it to the most similar treatment unit in this study, based on vegetation conditions, fire regime, and geographical area. This guide is based on the Restoring Whitebark Pine Ecosystems study, which was initiated in 1993 to investigate the effects of various restoration treatments on tree mortality, regeneration, and vascular plant response on five sites in the northern Rocky Mountains. The objective was to enhance whitebark pine regeneration and cone production using treatments that emulate the native fire regime. Since data summaries are for individual treatment units, there are no analyses of differences across treatment units or across sites.
Notes: Cover title.

"January 2010."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-133).

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