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SPECIES: Chimaphila umbellata | Prince's Pine
IMMEDIATE FIRE EFFECT ON PLANT : Prince's pine has a moderate to high probability of being killed by fire [40,76]. Low-severity fires that do not consume the organic mantle may only top-kill it. DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF FIRE EFFECT : NO-ENTRY PLANT RESPONSE TO FIRE : Postfire response of prince's pine is variable and is probably most dependent on fire severity and the uniformity of the burn. Some studies have reported prince's pine surviving fire. In mixed western hemlock-Douglas-fir-western redcedar (Thuja plicata) stands in North Cascades National Park, Washington, prince's pine was considered a residual species following a July wildfire. Its frequency in postfire years 1, 2, and 3 was 65.3, 52.1, and 52.1 percent, respectively [54]. Prince's pine appeared to survive on moderately burned sites following the Waterfalls Canyon Fire in Grand Teton National Park in July, 1974, but was eliminated from severely burned sites. The prefire vegetation was spruce-fir with lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) and whitebark pine (P. albicaulis). Prince's pine had the following percent frequency and cover as measured in 1975 [10]: Frequency Cover ______________________________________________ Unburned sites 52 5 Sites burned in 1932 2 trace Moderately burned sites 17 1 Severely burned sites 0 0 In the northern Rocky Mountains, slow recovery after fire has been reported. Prince's pine was eliminated from initial postfire communities by a severe wildfire in western larch (Larix occidentalis)-Douglas-fir stands on the Flathead National Forest, Montana [75]. In western larch-fir (Abies grandis and A. lasiocarpa) stands on the Flathead and Lolo National Forests, Montana, prince's pine had not recovered by postfire year 9 following logging and broadcast burning [74]. Prince's pine was also absent 10 months after a late-summer wildfire in lodgepole pine stands in the Chamberlain Basin, Idaho. It was found on adjacent unburned sites and was present on burned sites 5 years after the fire, but had less biomass production than on unburned sites [61]. Variable responses to fire have been reported for prince's pine in Minnesota. It survived the Little Sioux Wildfire in May, 1971, in mixed conifer-hardwood stands in northeastern Minnesota. Number of individuals (on seventy 0.605 sq m plots) and aboveground average dry weight per individual prince's pine were measured at the end of each growing season for the first 5 postfire years [58]: 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 ________________________________________________________________ No. of individuals 15 no data 57 30 7 Ave. dry wt. (g) .07 no data .33 .29 .46 Prince's pine responded more slowly after wildfires in second-growth mixed conifer-hardwood forests in northeastern Minnesota. It was not present in postfire years 3, 5, or 14 after the April Heartlake Fire. It was not present on the Kelley Creek Burn, resulting from a July fire, at postfire year 2 but had a frequency of 3 percent in postfire years 5 and 11 [48]. DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF PLANT RESPONSE : NO-ENTRY FIRE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS : Prince's pine is a component in many subzones in which guidelines for prescribed burning and tree species selection have been developed in the Vancouver Forest District, British Columbia [46].

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