«Research conducted thus far has consistently indicated that weather and climate are more important than the effects of outbreaks in determining fire risk and behavior in Rocky
Mountain subalpine forests,» wrote Veblen and Kulakowski.
Schoennagel, T., (2005) ENSO and PDO Variability Affect Drought?induced Fire Occurrence in Rocky
Mountain Subalpine Forests.
Not exact matches
But to track snowfall in higher elevations, the scientists examined rings from
subalpine larch,
mountain hemlock and
subalpine fir trees — species whose growth is retarded by snowfall.
The researchers examined five recent
subalpine fire zones in the San Juan
Mountains of southwestern Colorado.
Latin name: Abies lasiocarpa Decay has set in on the tree rings of this dead and downed
subalpine fir that once grew on Apex
Mountain in British Columbia, Canada, but the tree rings can still be measured and crossdated despite this!
Latin name: Abies lasiocarpa
Subalpine fir grows in the highest elevations of the southern Rocky
Mountains and forms fairly compacent ring series.