Using Prescribed Fire to Manage Pines
Authored By: J. Kush
Prescribed fire is used to various degrees in the management of southern pines. The following sections summarize information from Silvicultural Systems for the Major Forest Types of the United States (Burns 1983) and provide links to on-line information sources such as Silvics of North America (Burns and Honkala 1990) and the Fire Effects Information System.
Subsections found in Using Prescribed Fire to Manage Pines
- Using Prescribed Fire in the Silviculture of Longleaf Pine
- Using Prescribed Fire in the Silviculture of Slash Pine
- Using Prescribed Fire in the Silviculture of Loblolly Pine
- Using Prescribed Fire in the Silviculture of Shortleaf Pine
- Using Prescribed Fire in the Silviculture of Sand Pine
- Using Prescribed Fire in the Silviculture of Virginia Pine
- Using Prescribed Fire in the Silviculture of Pitch Pine
- The Fell-and-Burn Technique
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