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Season and interval of burning and cattle exclusion in the southern Blue Mountains, Oregon: Understory vegetation attributes

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posted on 2024-09-12, 20:03 authored by Becky K. Kerns, Michelle A. Day
These data document understory vegetation cover, richness and regeneration tree counts for a prescribed burning study with unburned controls on the Malheur National Forest in the southern Blue Mountains of Oregon. The original prescribed fires were conducted in the fall of 1997 and spring of 1998 and were repeated at two intervals, five and fifteen years. Five year interval reburns have been repeated three times (four burns total) and the fifteen year interval a single time (two burns total). Data include vegetation conditions prior to and following the last reburns and include understory vegetation cover; graminoid (grass and sedge) cover as well as leafing and flowering culm height, and flowering culm count data; shrub cover; conifer regeneration count data; presence/absence of all vascular species; and plant functional group information, descriptions and associated species.
Understory vegetation data were collected to examine the impact of: (1) season of burn (fall, spring and no burning) at two intervals (5 and 15 years), and (2) season of burn (fall, spring and control), 5-year interval reburning and cattle grazing.
Original metadata date was 08/28/2017. On 05/04/2021 minor metadata updates were made to keywords.

Funding

USDA-FS

History

Data contact name

Michelle Day

Publisher

Forest Service Research Data Archive

Use limitations

These data were collected using funding from the U.S. Government and can be used without additional permissions or fees. If you use these data in a publication, presentation, or other research product please use the following citation: Kerns, Becky K.; Day, Michelle A. 2017. Season and interval of burning and cattle exclusion in the southern Blue Mountains, Oregon: Understory vegetation attributes. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2017-0044

Temporal Extent Start Date

2002-06-02

Temporal Extent End Date

2015-09-13

Theme

  • Not specified

Geographic Coverage

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Geographic location - description

Data were collected within five ponderosa pine stands on the Emigrant Creek Ranger District of the Malheur National Forest, Harney County, Oregon.

ISO Topic Category

  • biota

National Agricultural Library Thesaurus terms

Forestry, Wildland Management

OMB Bureau Code

  • 005:96 - Forest Service

OMB Program Code

  • 005:059 - Management Activities

Pending citation

  • No

Public Access Level

  • Public

Identifier

RDS-2017-0044