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Excerpt from Fire Ecology of the Forest Habitat Types of Central Idaho This report summarizes available fire ecology and management information relating to forest habitat types in central Idaho; specifically, on the Boise, Challis, Payette, and Salmon National Forests; the Fairfield and Ketchum Ranger Districts and Sawtooth National Recrea tion Area of the Sawtooth National Forest; and the Dubois Ranger District of the Targhee National Forest. The primary purpose of this report is to aid in understanding fire's role in central Idaho forests, especially the role of fire in forest succession. Habitat types, as defined by Steele and others are arranged into eleven Fire Groups based on the response of the tree species to fire and similar postfire successions. The exception is Fire Group Zero, which is a collection of miscellaneous vegetation types. The actual successional sequence in any given stand depends upon a number of variables, such as preburn vegetation; the size, nature, and severity of the fire; climatic, topographic, and soil factors; and chance. Steele and geier-hayes (1982a, 1982b) show an example of the variation possible within a single habitat type. Thus, stands that key to the same habitat type might fall into different Fire Groups. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.