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Author(s):
Nicholas Dennis
Year Published:

Cataloging Information

Topic(s):
Fire Effects
Ecological - First Order
Soil Heating
Ecological - Second Order
Aquatic Life
Soils
Water
Ecosystem(s):
Montane wet mixed-conifer forest, Montane dry mixed-conifer forest, Riparian woodland/shrubland

NRFSN number: 11049
FRAMES RCS number: 10858
Record updated:

Over the past three days we have been presented with the results of a most impressive quantity and quality of research on the effects of fire on watersheds. My attempt to summarize these papers will hardly do them justice, but hopefully will recapitulate some of their more important and generalizable findings. My comments are organized into the following categories: soil temperature, soil nutrients, soil erosion, soil hydrology and streamflow, vegetation structure, stream temperature, and impacts of firefighting.

Citation

Dennis, Nicholas. 1989. The effects of fire on watersheds: a summary. In: Berg, Neil H., tech. coord. Proceedings of the symposium on fire and watershed management; 1988 October 26-28; Sacramento, California. Gen. Tech. Rep. GTR-PSW-109. Berkeley, CA: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. p. 92-94.