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Victor Lieffers, professor and chair of the Department of Natural Resources for the University of Alberta, talks about the keys to successful natural regeneration of serotinous pine. He discusses lodgepole pine’s adaptations, the value of fire and cone droppage, and current research being undertaken.
Conclusions given included: fire promoted seedlings success, and ground fires in girdled stands tended to open more cones than fires in living stands. Seed will rain down for a decade or more after fire; forest floor disturbance is needed for pine seedlings to establish, and fire or mechanical site preparation might prepare seedbeds.
This presentation was a part of the Mountain Pine Beetle Information Exchange Forum, in April of 2014.
