Over the last century, fire exclusion has caused dramatic structural and compositional changes to southern New England forests, highlighting the need to reintroduce fires into the historically pyrogenic landscape to study the response. We investigated the effects of a single overstory thinning and midsto...
Fire intensity must be kept low in hardwoods to limit damage to many species of overstory trees. However, wounding or killing trees with fire benefits many wildlife spe- cies by allowing increased sunlight to stimulate understory response, snag and subsequent cavity creation, and additions of large...
Numerous studies have attempted to better understand the historic effect of fires by re-introducing fire to the landscape; however, existing research on prescribed burns in oak-hickory forests has generally been limited to the southeast and midwest regions of the USA (Hart and Buchanan2012; Brose ...
Review A Review on the Dynamics of Prescribed Fire, Tree Mortality, and Injury in Managing Oak Natural Communities to Minimize Economic Loss in North America Daniel C. Dey 1,* and Callie Jo Schweitzer 2 1 Research Forester, Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, 202 Anheuser Busch ...