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Estimating Consumption and Remaining Carbon in Burned Slash Piles

Year of Publication
2012
Publication Type

Fuel reduction treatments to reduce fire risk have become commonplace in the fire adapted forests of western North America. These treatments generate significant woody debris, or slash, and burning this material in piles is a common and inexpensive approach to reducing fuel loads.

Mountain pine beetle attack alters the chemistry and flammability of lodgepole pine foliage

Year of Publication
2012
Publication Type

During periods with epidemic mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) populations in lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl. ex Loud. var. latifolia Engelm.) forests, large amounts of tree foliage are thought to undergo changes in moisture content and chemistry brought about by tree decline and death. However, many of the presumed changes have yet to be quantified.