Several generations of Oregonians carry memories of a series of forest fires so sweeping that they spurred an entire state into action. These fires created what was for a long time called the "Tillamook Burn" -- a wide swath of devastation cut through old growth forests in the Coast Range....
This study analyzes past forest fire behavior on a selected area
in the Oregon Cascades in an attempt to evaluate level of fire hazard
on selected vegetational areas. Vegetational areas were defined in
five broad classes: Merchantable Douglas-fir Stands, Non-merchantable
Douglas-fir Stands, Oak- Madrone Stands, Non- forest
Lands, and Non-stocked...
From the 1920's through 1951 several severe fires occurred in the predominantly conifer forest ecosystems of the northern Oregon Coast Range. Of the 211,151 ha. of mapped area, 57 percent was burned. The effects of frequent fires with high severity on forest ecosystems over time at the landscape level is...
Starting more than 60 years ago, a complex of four forest fires occurring at six-year intervals burned almost 400 square miles of
virgin Douglas-fir forest in the northwestern Coast Range of Oregon. The area, which became known as the Tillamook Burn, was the focus
of an unprecedented reforestation effort drawing...
Despite the belief that fuels management, a form of prescribed fire that reduces accumulated fuels in commercially thinned forests, is necessary to restore forest 'health' in the Pacific Northwest, its effects on wildlife has received little attention in the scientific literature. Because fuels management is supported, funded, and implemented nationwide...