FIRE EFFECTS
SPECIES: Acer grandidentatum | Bigtooth Maple 



IMMEDIATE FIRE EFFECT ON PLANT : 
Limited information regarding fire effects on bigtooth maple indicates
that most plants would be killed or top-killed by fire.


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF FIRE EFFECT : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT RESPONSE TO FIRE : 
Limited information suggests that bigtooth maple is a poor sprouter.
Research conducted with the closely related and ecologically similar
sugar maple of eastern forests showed it to be a poor sprouter following
burning.  Following bole-killing fires, sugar maple trees produced only
a few sprouts of low vigor or failed to sprout altogether [51,64].


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF PLANT RESPONSE : 
NO-ENTRY


FIRE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS : 
Managers wishing to prevent the spread of bigtooth maple could probably
do so with prescribed burns.  Burning should take place before maple
clones become large, because mature stands often have reduced
understories (reduced fuel loads to carry a fire) [9].

Related categories for Species: Acer grandidentatum | Bigtooth Maple