Abstract
Saline Experimental Range Dormant Season Wildfire: Short-Term Effect on Forage Production and Plant Composition
Highlights
Rangeland wildfires in the southern plains may occur any time of year, but the low humidity, increasing temperatures, and dry and abundant fuel load of late winter and early spring can result in greater wildfire occurrence and severity
Fires that occur before the growing season remove standing residual vegetation and greatly reduce litter cover, so the soil surface may be left bare for several weeks or months before the onset of new pasture growth
Information collected from a previous wildfire that occurred during mid-March at the Kansas State University Agricultural Research Center–Hays showed that forage production was significantly reduced for two years following the fire
Summary
(2020) "Saline Experimental Range Dormant Season Wildfire: Short-Term Effect on Forage Production and Plant Composition," Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports: Vol 6: Iss. 3.
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