Restoration benefits of re-entry with resource objective wildfire on a ponderosa pine landscape in northern Arizona, USA

•Are there additive restoration benefits of repeated resource objective wildfire?•We compared single and re-entry wildfires on a large ponderosa pine landscape.•Re-entry tended to marginally reduce tree density and hazardous fuels.•Effects were mainly related to low-severity fire in previously unbur...

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Published in:Forest ecology and management 2018-01, Vol.408, p.16-24
Main Authors: Huffman, David W., Crouse, Joseph E., Sánchez Meador, Andrew J., Springer, Judith D., Stoddard, Michael T.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
additive effect
Arizona
burning
Ecological restoration
ecosystems
fire behavior
Fire management
Forest structure
forests
fuel loading
fuel moisture index
fuels
fuels (fire ecology)
Hazardous fuels reduction
Kaibab National Forest
landscapes
managers
Pinus ponderosa
Repeated wildfire entry
risk
trees
weather
wildfires
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