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Mimicking Fire For Post-Mining Restoration Success, Katherine M. Wilkin
Mimicking Fire For Post-Mining Restoration Success, Katherine M. Wilkin
Master's Theses
This study is based at Rocky Canyon Quarry (RCQ), a 200-acre granite aggregate open-pit quarry with chaparral-dominated plant communities located in San Luis Obispo County, CA. At RCQ, the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (SMARA) of 1975 was interpreted as restoring the landscape to native plant communities. Native plant community restoration projects have occurred there since 1993 through cooperation with California Polytechnic State University Biology Department in San Luis Obispo, CA. I evaluated past restoration at RCQ and researched new techniques to improve chaparral restoration based on the natural processes of fire.
Chaparral is an important fire-dominated plant community within …