The Sleeping Child Burn

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Excerpt from The Sleeping Child Burn: 21 Years of Postfire ChangeFrom 1962 to 1982, but particularly in the years before 1970, the Darby and Sula Ranger Districts con ducted watershed rehabilitation, timber salvage, and timber stand improvement (thinning) programs in the Sleeping Child Burn area. Some Christmas tree sales, pole and firewood sales, and a mistletoe control project were carried out, and 400 to 900 cattle were grazed within the burned area each year. Two of these activities appeared to have a potential for producing long-term modification of forest communities in the burn. First, during the initial growing season, the entire burn was treated with an aerial seeding of domestic grasses and forbs. In addition, from 1966 to 1969, much of the burn was treated to prevent the spread of mistletoe, and a number of chemical thinning projects were conducted. Nearly acres were treated directly, and a much larger area was affected by drifting herbicides from the treated areas.In 1976, for the sample transects, direct crown kill amounted to about 623 ft3 per acre (44 m3/ba) of shrubs and 11 to 25 percent of the vascular cover on areas treated with herbicides. At the same time, and despite treatments that substantially reduced all forms of vegetation, even the most extreme deviation caused by the treatments was within the range of normal variation for the communities studied.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.