AUTHORS 



WYMAN C. SCHMIDT is a research silviculturist and Project Leader 

 of the Silviculture of Northern Rocky Mountain Subalpine 

 Forest Ecosystems research unit at the Forestry Sciences 

 Laboratory, Bozeman, Montana. His research has focused 

 primarily on the ecology, stand development, and silvi- 

 culture of young coniferous forests of the Intermountain 

 and Northern Rocky Mountain West. 



JAMES E. LOTAN is a research forester and Program Manager of the 

 Fire Effects and Use Research and Development Program at 

 the Northern Forest Fire Laboratory, Missoula, Montana. His 

 broad range of research has special emphasis on lodgepole 

 pine regeneration and use of fire as a tool in managing 

 forests of the mountain West. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



We acknowledge the many people involved in the conduct of 

 this study in the 1920 's and 1930' s, many of whom are deceased. 

 However, we feel that special acknowledgments are due to Robert 

 Weidman, Irvine Haig, Elers Koch, Lyle Watts, Lincoln Ellison, 

 and Charles Wellner for the design, administration, and conduct 

 of the study reported here. 



