FIRE EFFECTS
SPECIES: Festuca subulata | Bearded Fescue 



IMMEDIATE FIRE EFFECT ON PLANT : 
Bearded fescue culms, leaves, and stolons are probably killed by fire.
Plants with rhizomes are probably only top-killed.


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF FIRE EFFECT : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT RESPONSE TO FIRE : 
Bearded fescue may sprout following some fires.  


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF PLANT RESPONSE : 
NO-ENTRY


FIRE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS : 
Agee [26] summarizes fire management options in Pacific Northwest
forests where bearded fescue occurs.  In western hemlock forests no
natural areas are large enough to allow a free-ranging fire, and few
will allow prescribed natural fire.  Also, much of the protected western
hemlock forest is within conservation areas for the northern spotted owl
and is being managed to preserve owl habitat.  Without fire, the
proportion of Douglas-fir in natural stands will decline, particularly
on more mesic sites, and western hemlock will assume a more important
role.  In Pacific silver fir forests fire is not a useful management
option.  Under controllable conditions, prescribed fires will not
spread.  As a fuel reduction tool, prescribed fire usually increases
dead fuel loadings [26].  

Related categories for Species: Festuca subulata | Bearded Fescue