Post-burn study of herbaceous vegetation at Jacobs Branch and Devils Den burn sites, 1990-1994

Recent declines in the yellow pine component of pine-hardwood stands in the southern Appalachian Mountains has prompted managers to increase the use of fire as a silviculture tool. This project examines the fell and burn treatment which is designed to remove competing vegetation (hardwoods and mountain laurel [Kalmia latifolia]) to ensure successful establishment of planted eastern white pine (Pinus strobus) and how it affects herbaceous vegetation recruitment.