Fire, Climate, and Forest Structure in Ponderosa Pine Forests of the Black Hills

Peter Mark Brown

Ph.D. Dissertation, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado. 103 pp.

Contents:

Abstract and Acknowledgements

Chapter I. Introduction

Chapter II. Fire history in interior ponderosa pine communities of the Black Hills, South Dakota, USA (Brown and Sieg 1996)

Chapter III. Historical variability in fire at the ponderosa pine - northern Great Plains prairie ecotone, southeastern Black Hills, South Dakota (Brown and Sieg 1999)

Chapter IV. Fire, climate, and forest structure in Black Hills ponderosa pine forests