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Aspen Response To Prescribed Fire And Wild Ungulate Herbivory, Steve Kilpatrick, Diane Abendroth
Aspen Response To Prescribed Fire And Wild Ungulate Herbivory, Steve Kilpatrick, Diane Abendroth
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No abstract provided.
Evaluation Of Burned Aspen Communities In Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Charles E. Kay
Evaluation Of Burned Aspen Communities In Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Charles E. Kay
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Aspen has been declining in Jackson Hole for many years, a condition generally attributed to the fact that lightning fires have been aggressively suppressed since the early 1900s. It is also believed that burning will successfully regenerate aspen stands despite high elk numbers. To test this hypothesis, I evaluated 467 burned and 495 adjacent, unburned aspen stands at eight different locations within Jackson Hole. Aspen suckering was stimulated by burning, but most aspen stands still failed to produce new stems greater than 2 m tall where ungulate use was moderate or high. Only when elk use was low were burned …
Quaking Aspen Reproduce From Seed After Wildfire In The Mountains Of Southeastern Arizona, Ronald D. Quinn, Lin Wu
Quaking Aspen Reproduce From Seed After Wildfire In The Mountains Of Southeastern Arizona, Ronald D. Quinn, Lin Wu
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Quaking aspen regenerated from seed after a stand replacement wildfire in the Chiricahua Mountains of southeastern Arizona. The wildfire had created gaps in the canopy so that aspen were able to establish from seed. Seedlings were found at a mean density of 0.17 m–2, 30 m or more from the nearest potential seed trees. Six clumps of aspen seedlings contained 18–186 trees, occupying areas of 145–500 square meters at densities of 0.09-0.27 m–2. White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) browsed 14.3% of the seedlings. Occasional sexual reproduction of aspen may be a general trait of the species throughout the western portion of …
Predation Risk And Elk-Aspen Foraging Patterns, C.A. White, M.C. Feller
Predation Risk And Elk-Aspen Foraging Patterns, C.A. White, M.C. Feller
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Elk-aspen foraging patterns may be influenced by cover type, distance from roads or trails, the type of user on road or trail (park visitor, human hunter, or predator), and two general states of aspen condition (open-grown or thicket). Pellet group and browse utilization transects in the Canadian Rockies showed that elk were attracted to roads used by park visitors and avoided by wolves, and that elk possibly avoided aspen and conifer patches near backcountry trails used by wolves. In high predation risk landscapes, aspen stands were dense, lightly browsed, and rarely entered by elk. As risk decreased, elk density and …
Logging In Alaska's Boreal Forest: Creation Of Grasslands Or Enhancement Of Moose Habitat, William B. Collins, Charles C. Schwartz
Logging In Alaska's Boreal Forest: Creation Of Grasslands Or Enhancement Of Moose Habitat, William B. Collins, Charles C. Schwartz
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Timber harvest in Alaska’s boreal forest can greatly enhance or severely reduce moose (Alces alces) habitat quality, depending on forest management objectives, timing and methods of harvest, and post-logging site preparation. Overstory removal associated with timely exposure of mineral soil favors establishment of early successional hardwoods important as moose browse. A combination of clear-cutting and soil scarification on mesic sites mimics fire, windfall, and fluvial erosion, important natural forces that drive regeneration of the boreal forest. When cut during dormancy, aspen (Populus tremuloides) and balsam poplar (P. balsamifera) Regenerate prolifically by root and stump …
Response Of Aspen Root Suckers To Regeneration Methods And Post-Harvest Protection, Wayne D. Shepperd
Response Of Aspen Root Suckers To Regeneration Methods And Post-Harvest Protection, Wayne D. Shepperd
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No abstract provided.
Quaking Aspen Productivity Recovers After Repeated Prescribed Fire, Donald A. Perala
Quaking Aspen Productivity Recovers After Repeated Prescribed Fire, Donald A. Perala
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No abstract provided.
Regeneration Of Aspen By Suckering On Burned Sites In Western Wyoming, D.L. Bartos, W.F. Mueggler, R.B. Campbell, Jr.
Regeneration Of Aspen By Suckering On Burned Sites In Western Wyoming, D.L. Bartos, W.F. Mueggler, R.B. Campbell, Jr.
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Approximately 2.8 million ha of woodlands dominated by quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) are scattered throughout the Western United States (Green and Van Hooser 1983).
Mixed Conifer And Aspen Regeneration In Small Clearcuts Within A Partially Harvested Arizona Mixed Conifer Forest, P.F. Ffolliott, G.J. Gottfried
Mixed Conifer And Aspen Regeneration In Small Clearcuts Within A Partially Harvested Arizona Mixed Conifer Forest, P.F. Ffolliott, G.J. Gottfried
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Southwestern mixed conifer forests are found on high-elevation sites, generally above 8,000 feet, throughout Arizona, New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado.
A Survey Of The Harvesting Histories Of Some Poorly Regenerated Aspen Stands In Northern Minnesota, P.C. Bates, C.R. Blinn, A.A. Alm
A Survey Of The Harvesting Histories Of Some Poorly Regenerated Aspen Stands In Northern Minnesota, P.C. Bates, C.R. Blinn, A.A. Alm
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No abstract provided.
Pine Hollow Exclosures: Effect Of Browsing On An Aspen Community Sprayed With 2,4-D, D.L. Bartos, R.O. Harniss
Pine Hollow Exclosures: Effect Of Browsing On An Aspen Community Sprayed With 2,4-D, D.L. Bartos, R.O. Harniss
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No abstract provided.
Soil Temperatures And Suckering In Burned And Unburned Aspen Stands, Roger D. Hungerford
Soil Temperatures And Suckering In Burned And Unburned Aspen Stands, Roger D. Hungerford
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No abstract provided.
Aspen Sucker Damage And Defect In Colorado Clearcut Areas, Thomas E. Hinds, W.D. Shepperd
Aspen Sucker Damage And Defect In Colorado Clearcut Areas, Thomas E. Hinds, W.D. Shepperd
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Substantial acreages of aspen in the Rocky Mountains are being regenerated by clearcutting; however, there is little information on the quality of the suckers that reestablish in these areas. Whether the new stands will be more or less defective than their predecessors is unknown.
Aspen Regeneration In 6- To 10-Year-Old Clearcuts In Southwestern Colorado, Glenn L. Crouch
Aspen Regeneration In 6- To 10-Year-Old Clearcuts In Southwestern Colorado, Glenn L. Crouch
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No abstract provided.
Survey Of Aspen Stands Treated With Herbicides In The Western United States, R.O. Harniss, D.L. Bartos
Survey Of Aspen Stands Treated With Herbicides In The Western United States, R.O. Harniss, D.L. Bartos
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No abstract provided.
Aspen Regeneration After Commercial Clearcutting In Southwestern Colorado, G.L. Crouch
Aspen Regeneration After Commercial Clearcutting In Southwestern Colorado, G.L. Crouch
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No abstract provided.
Shearing Restores Full Productivity To Sparse Aspen Stands, Donald A. Perala
Shearing Restores Full Productivity To Sparse Aspen Stands, Donald A. Perala
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No abstract provided.
Effects Of Partial Cutting On Diseases, Mortality, And Regeneration Of Rocky Mountain Aspen Stands, James W. Walters, Thomas E. Hinds, David W. Johnson, Jerome Beatty
Effects Of Partial Cutting On Diseases, Mortality, And Regeneration Of Rocky Mountain Aspen Stands, James W. Walters, Thomas E. Hinds, David W. Johnson, Jerome Beatty
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No abstract provided.
Scarification Of 3-Year-Old Aspen Suckers: 4- And 6-Year Effects On, And A Preliminary Forecast Of, The Internal Pathological Quality Of The Survivors, J.T. Basham
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No abstract provided.
Clone Expansion And Competition Between Quaking And Bigtooth Aspen Suckers After Clearcutting, Donald A. Perala
Clone Expansion And Competition Between Quaking And Bigtooth Aspen Suckers After Clearcutting, Donald A. Perala
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The ability of quaking and bigtooth aspens (Populus tremuloids Michx., P. grandidentata Michx.) to vegetatively regenerate dense stands of root sprouts (suckers) is well documented (Brinkman and Roe 1975). Tens of thousands of suckers per hectare are commonly produced when stands are killed by fire or removed by clearcutting.
Clear Cutting Alternate Strips And Scarifying In White Spruce And White Spruce-Trembling Aspen Stands To Induce Natural White Spruce Regeneration, Manitoba And Saskatchewan, V.S. Kolabinski
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No abstract provided.