Southern Research Station

Title: Prescribed Burning For Laurel and Rhodendron Control in the Southern appalachians

Author: Hooper, Ralph M.

Date: 1969

Source: Res. Note SE-116. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station. 6 p.

Station ID: RN-SE-116

Description: Prescribed fire shows promise as a tool for the control of laurel and rhododendron in the Southern Appalachian mountains. A recent prescribed fire killed the tops of 70 percent of ail laurel under 0.5 inch d.b.h. and 70 percent of the rhododendron under 1 inch d.b.h. Seventeen months after the bum, almost all of the top-killed laurel and rhododendron have resprouted; but many of the white pine planted after the burn will also survive.

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Hooper, Ralph M.   1969.  Prescribed Burning For Laurel and Rhodendron Control in the Southern appalachians.   Res. Note SE-116. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station. 6 p.