Laurie S. Huckaby is a professional Ecologist at the USDA-Forest Service Rocky
Mountain Research Station in Fort Collins, Colorado. She received a M.S. in
Forest Science from Colorado State University. She has worked for the last eighteen
years on the ecology of disturbance and vegetation pattern in the Rocky Mountains
of Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming. Her work has encompassed landscape ecology,
disturbance history, climate change and historical ecology in subalpine, mixed
conifer, and ponderosa pine ecosystems. Her most recent project is a fire history/stand
structure study of mixed conifer vegetation in northern Colorado, funded by
the Front Range Fuels Treatment Partnership. She is also currently building
a fire history in the Larimer County foothills. Past work includes technical
editing, studies of fire history, forest structure and vegetation communities,
archival research for reference conditions to advise land managers and technology
transfer in the form of publications, talks and classes. She has been a member
of the Tree-Ring Society since 2001.
Suggested Reading:
Huckaby, L.S. and Moir, W.H. 1998. Forest communities at Fraser Experimental Forest, Colorado. Southwestern Naturalist, 43 (2):204-218.
Huckaby, L.S. and Moir, W.H. 1995. Fire history of subalpine forests at Fraser
Experimental Forest, Colorado. Pages 205-210 in Brown, J.K. et al., tech. coords.
Proceedings: Symposium on Fire in Wilderness and Park Management, March 30-April
1, 1993; Missoula, MT. Ogden, UT: USDA Forest Service Intermountain Research
Station General Technical Report INT-GTR-320.