NWFSC Research Brief #8: Cumulative disturbances on the landscape: Lessons from the Pole Creek fire, Oregon
| Title | NWFSC Research Brief #8: Cumulative disturbances on the landscape: Lessons from the Pole Creek fire, Oregon |
| Publication Type | Report |
| Year of Publication | 2016 |
| Authors | Consortium, NWFire Scien |
| Series Title | Northwest Fire Science Consortium Research Briefs |
| Document Number | 8 |
| Date Published | Summer 2016 |
| Keywords | extension publications and factsheets, insects and fire, MPB, research briefs |
| Abstract | Previous research has focused on quantifying fuel loadings and using operational fire behavior models to understand changes in fire severity following MPB outbreaks. In this study however, researchers used direct field measurements taken from the 2012 Pole Creek Fire that burned in lodgepole pine forests in central Oregon’s Eastern Cascade Mountains, which had experienced a MPB epidemic 8-15 years prior to the fire. They examined the combined effects of MPB and fire disturbances on stand structure, and investigated the influence of previous MPB severity and fire weather on subsequent fire severity and cumulative disturbance severity. |
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