Methods:
We propose to photo-document the chronosequence of the UMBS burn plots. As this will be our first visit to UMBS, we do not have specific locations in mind, but we will create images from identical vantage points and in a range of wavelengths (visible, ultraviolet, infrared). We use modified digital cameras to create photographic images outside of the human perceptual spectrum. We use a Nikon D800 to capture visible-light images; a Nikon D3000 from which we’ve removed its infrared blocking filter to capture infrared images; and a D3000 with a UV filter to capture ultraviolet images. Images are displayed in structured grids that include visible, desaturated (monochrome), infrared, and ultraviolet images. The immediate visual comparisons permit us and the viewers to conceptualize different ways of seeing the forest and what these differences suggest in terms of forest successional dynamics.