Abstract: AbstractIn recent years, increased wildfire activity and climate change have raised concern among scientists and land managers regarding current and future vegetation patterns in post‐burn landscapes. We surveyed conifer regeneration 8–15 years after fire in six burn areas in the lower montane zone of the Colorado Front Range. We sampled across a broad range of elevations, aspects, and fire severities and found that densities of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) and Douglas‐fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) are generally low, although areas of a...
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Ecology
Forestry
Agroforestry