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Historical and recent fire regimes in Piñon–Juniper woodlands on Mesa Verde, Colorado, USA

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M Lisa Floyd, William H Romme, and David D Hanna, Historical and recent fire regimes in Piñon–Juniper woodlands on Mesa Verde, Colorado, USA: .

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The fire history of Piñon–Juniper (Pinus edulis–Juniperus osteosperma) woodlands in much of the southwestern United States is poorly understood, and as a result, fire management decisions are being made without a rigorous ecological underpinning. We investigated the historic fire regimes in Piñon–Juniper woodlands on the Mesa Verde cuesta utilizing stand and age structures. All Piñon trees in eight stands were aged and stand age was extrapolated to the surrounding landscapes using digital imagery, creating a time-since-fire map of the 1995 landscape. Six sampled stands were over 400 years, while two were between 200 and 300 years. Stand-replacing fire with a rotation of 400 years or longer characterized this Piñon–Juniper [...]

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