Year Published:
Cataloging Information
Topic(s):
Fire Effects
Ecological - Second Order
Vegetation
Fuels
Fuel Treatments & Effects
Ecological - Second Order
Vegetation
Fuels
Fuel Treatments & Effects
Ecosystem(s):
Montane wet mixed-conifer forest, Montane dry mixed-conifer forest
NRFSN number: 11928
FRAMES RCS number: 14023
Record updated:
Damage from tractor logging and slash burning in a Douglas-fir stand on gentle terrain was measured for three different types of timber harvesting. Logging damage was light in the selection-cut and understory-removal cutting units. In the overstory-removal unit, about 11 percent of the leave trees were killed by logging. Little damage from burning was incurred in the selection-cut and understory-removal units, but in the overstory-removal unit an additional 56 percent was killed by burning.
Citation
Benson, Robert Earl. 1980. Damage from logging and prescribed burning in partially cut Douglas-fir stands. Res. Note INT-RN-294. Ogden, UT: USDA Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. 6 p.