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Author(s):
Robert E. Keane
Year Published:

Cataloging Information

Topic(s):
Fire Ecology
Insects & Disease
Fuels
Fuel Treatments & Effects
Management Approaches
Recovery after fire
Ecosystem(s):
Alpine forest/krummholz, Subalpine wet spruce-fir forest

NRFSN number: 7927
FRAMES RCS number: 4077
Record updated:

In recent decades, whitebark pine has been declining due to epidemics and fire exclusion (Keane and Arno 1993; Kendall and Arno 1990). In the northern Rocky Mountains, a project is underway to explore the feasibility of using fire and silviculture to restore the tree's high-elevation habitat.

Citation

Keane, Robert E. 2001. Can the fire-dependent whitebark pine be saved? Fire Management Today. 61(3): 17-20.