Fire history of the Aiken Canyon grassland-woodland ecotone in the southern foothills of the Colorado front range

William R. Wieder; Nathan W. Bower

doi:10.1894/0038-4909(2004)049<0239:NFHOTA>2.0.CO;2

Fire history of the Aiken Canyon grassland-woodland ecotone in the southern foothills of the Colorado front range

William R. Wieder, Nathan W. Bower

Terrestrial Sciences

Colorado College

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A fire history for the Aiken Canyon Nature Conservancy preserve in Colorado is presented. Eighteen cross-sections cut from ponderosa pine recorded 20 fire events for the period spanning 1602 to 1999. An unusually small median fire interval (MFI) of 7.5 years was obtained for the period 1753 to 1935. A significant association was found between El Nino weather patterns and the fires at Aiken Canyon. A shorter MFI was observed in the grasslands, which are at lower elevations. Fires from railroads or cattle ranching might have caused the shorter MFI in the grasslands between 1872 and 1935. After 1935, fire suppression became common.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	239-243
Number of pages	5
Journal	Southwestern Naturalist
Volume	49
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1894/0038-4909(2004)049<0239:NFHOTA>2.0.CO;2
State	Published - Jun 2004

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Fire history of the Aiken Canyon grassland-woodland ecotone in the southern foothills of the Colorado front range

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