ABSTRACT

Introduction............................................................................................................210 Forest Harvest and Fire Disturbances .......................................................210 Objective and Analysis Approach .............................................................211

Methods..................................................................................................................212 Study Area .................................................................................................212 Geographic Information Layers ................................................................214 Image Preprocessing..................................................................................215 Image Analyses..........................................................................................215 Patch Analyses ...........................................................................................216

Results....................................................................................................................216 Extent of Forest Harvest and Fire Disturbances.......................................216 Patch Characteristics of Stand-Replacing Disturbances ...........................217 Contrasts between Stand-Replacing Harvest and Fire Disturbance