Five Southern California Oaks: Identification and Postfire Management

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Description: 

This report provides a guide to identifying five of the prominent species of southern California oaks―coast live oak, interior live oak, California black oak, canyon live oak, and California scrub oak. It provides specific information for the identification of each of the five species; assesses fire damage for the trees on the basis of species, diameter-at- breast-height (d.b.h.), and degree of trunk charring; and, briefly outlines postfire management alternatives for firedamaged trees.

Provenance: Contributed to Sipnuuk Food Security Collection by Arielle Halpern, doctoral student in the Department of Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley, in association with research for her dissertation-in-progress: Effects of Prescribed Fire on Tanoak Associated Plant Assemblages and Karuk Cultural Use Species
 

Protocol: 
Public
Community: 
Sípnuuk
Category: 
Natural Resources, Traditional Foods and Materials
Keywords: 
California, resource management, fire ecology, fire management
Collections: 
AFRI Food Security
Original Date Description: 
1983-10
Original Date: 
1983 October 1st
Creator: 
Timothy Plumb, Anthony Gomez
Contributor: 
Arielle Halpern
Source: 
AFRI Food Security
Publisher: 
United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station General Technical Report PSW-71
Identifier: 
AFRIFoodSecurity_UCB_ArielleHalpern_009_002
Format: 
Government Publication