Type variability and succession in Rocky Mountain aspen

Authors

Walter F. Mueggler

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Utilization and Marketing as Tools for Aspen Management in the Rocky Mountains: Proceedings of the Symposium

Volume

General Technical Report RM-29

Publisher

USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station

First Page

16

Last Page

19

Publication Date

1976

Abstract

Most of the 6 million acres of aspen lands in the West occur in the Central Rocky Mountains. The ability of western aspen to occupy a wide diversity of sites, the great genetic diversity among clones, and the role of aspen as both a dominant successional and stable species severely complicate management. Such ecological and genetic diversity results in considerable variability in both resource production and potential response to management. Progress in classifying the ecological variability of aspen lands is slow; useful partitioning of genetic diversity is nil.

Recommended Citation

Mueggler, W. F. 1976. Type Variability and Succession in Rocky Mountain Aspen. Utilization and Marketing as Tools for Aspen Management in the Rocky Mountains: Proceedings of the Symposium. General Technical Report RM-29. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Fort Collins, CO. 16-19