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Post-fire Forest Recovery on Sofa Mountain in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada
By:Daniel Buckler
Published on 2012 by

Landscape response to disturbance and variable topography is an important topic of research for land managers in fire-prone regions of North America, particularly the mountain west. Waterton Lakes National Park, in southwest Alberta, was the site of a 1998 fire on Sofa Mountain in which 1521 ha of mostly coniferous forests were burned. An investigation of successional growth over the last fourteen years has enabled research to current, emergent vegetation types, and spatial distribution of the mosaic, particularly as associated with topographic factors. This was accomplished with remote sensing, ArcGIS, and ground truthing, allowing a vegetation classification of the burn area which delineates emergent patterns of land cover. Statistical regressions indicated that some vegetative groupings were influenced by specific topographic features, most notably the aspect r-value which was negatively correlated with tree emergence. Slope was the only topographic factor determined to influence the survival of tree patches through a weak negative correlation between slope and surviving trees. Understanding the spatial nature of vegetation regrowth, particularly as associated with topography, can allow land managers to better plan conservation strategies.

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