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Fire Regimes of the Central Appalachian Mountains

Publications
 

Georgina G. DeWeese, 2007. Past fire regimes of Table Mountain pine (Pinus pungens Lamb.) stands in the central Appalachian Mountains, Virginia, U.S.A. Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 308 pp.


Philip B. White, 2007. Dendroclimatological analysis of oak species in the southern Appalachian Mountains. Bachelor's Honors Thesis, Department of Geography, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 69 pp.


Charles W. Lafon and Henri D. Grissino-Mayer, 2007. Spatial patterns of fire occurrence in the central Appalachian Mountains and implications for wildland fire management. Physical Geography 28(1): 1–20.


Charles W. Lafon, Jennifer A. Hoss, and Henri D. Grissino-Mayer, 2005. The contemporary fire regime of the central Appalachian Mountains and its relation to climate. Physical Geography 26: 126-146.


Elaine K. Sutherland, Henri D. Grissino-Mayer, Connie A. Woodhouse, W. Wallace Covington, Sally P. Horn, Laurie Huckaby, Richard Kerr, John Kush, Margaret Moore, and Tim Plumb, 1993. Two centuries of fire in a southwestern Virginia Pinus pungens community. Hypertext Proceedings, IUFRO Conference on Inventory and Management in the Context of Catastrophic Events, 21-24 June 1993, University Park, Pennsylvania.


Michelle Pfeffer, 2005. Regression-based age estimates of yellow pine (Pinus) saplings, Jefferson National Forest, Virginia. Bachelor's Honors Thesis, Department of Geography, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 58 pp.


PowerPoint Presentations

We've given the results of our JFSP-sponsored research at numerous national and regional meetings (see our list of Presentations), and some have asked us if we could provide the actual PowerPoint presentations so that they could learn more of our research.

Charles W. Lafon, Henri D. Grissino-Mayer, Elaine K. Sutherland, Steve Q. Croy, Georgina D. Wight, and Serena R. Aldrich, 2003. Fire regimes and successional dynamics of yellow pine (Pinus) stands in the central Appalachian Mountains. George Washington and Jefferson National Forests, Fire Management Officers and Rangers Meeting, 14–17 October 2003, Marion, Virginia.

Georgina DeWeese Wight, Henri D. Grissino-Mayer, Charles W. Lafon, and Elaine Kennedy Sutherland, 2004. Spatiotemporal analyses of fire regimes in yellow pine stands, Craig Creek Valley, Virginia, USA. Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, 14–19 March 2004, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Charles W. Lafon, Georgina G. DeWeese, Henri D. Grissino-Mayer, Serena R. Aldrich, Steven Q. Croy, and Elaine Kennedy Sutherland, 2005. Fire history and forest succession in yellow pine stands of the Appalachian Mountains. Southern Appalachian Fire Ecology Symposium, 24–25 May 2005, Coweeta Hydrological Station, Franklin, North Carolina.

Henri D. Grissino-Mayer, Charles W. Lafon, and Georgina DeWeese Wight, 2005. Fire regimes and successional dynamics of yellow pine (Pinus) stands in the central Appalachian Mountains. Annual Meeting, Joint Fire Science Program, 1–3 November 2005, San Diego, California.