Two-Year Dormant Season Burn
Overview
Objectives
To demonstrate the effects of a two-year burn interval during the dormant season (November-February), on the understory community composition and pine regeneration in a pine flatwoods ecosystem.
Summary
This study provides insight to the effects of a pine flatwoods ecosystem under a two-year dormant season burn. It also provides landowners the opportunity to observe the effects of this burn regime relative to a one- and three-year burn regime in adjacent stands.
The pine regeneration is more prolific here than in both the one- and three-year burn interval stands that are adjacent. This likely reflects the lower level of understory competition interacting with a burn interval that allows seedlings to establish. The stand also features relatively large gaps, and this is where most of the pine regeneration is found.
Results
Basal Area Table
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Silvicultural Application(s) Used in Study
What did the study investigate?
Are there any local forest health threats to your target species?
No
Plans for Future Treatments
Maintaining a two-year dormant season burn in this unit is the only treatment planned for this area
Plans for Future Measurements
The forest will be inventoried at 10-year intervals for the library.