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Fire has traditionally been a management tool for rural societies and is still a part of European culture in many regions. Fire use also plays an increasing role in forest and other land management practices and policies in Europe. In the form of…
Type: Document
Year: 2010
Bond, Parr
Forests and grassy vegetation (savannas and grasslands) are alternative ecosystem states in many tropical landscapes. Relative to forests the grassy ecosystems are poorly known and poorly conserved, partly because they were thought to be products of…
Type: Document
Year: 2010
Interagency wildland fire policy directs manager to apply 'best available science' to management plans and activities. But what does 'best available science' mean? With a vague definition of this concept and few guidelines for delivering or…
Type: Document
Year: 2010
Lynch, Hessl
Interannual climatic variability strongly influences patterns of burning in many regions and this control may extend to fire regimes dominated by anthropogenic ignitions or fire suppression. A close linkage between fire and climate could reduce the…
Type: Document
Year: 2010
Guyette, Stambaugh, Dey
Land managers developing fire management plans in the eastern and southern United States lack quantitative information on historic fire regimes. Twelve new fire histories were developed from dated fire scars on trees from regions where no fire scar…
Type: Document
Year: 2010
Ramírez Trejo, Perez-Garcia, Perez-Salicrup, Orozco-Segovia
Pteridium caudatum is a fern that frequently invades burnt areas in the Yucatan Peninsula and other neotropical sites. While post-fire regeneration of this fern apparently occurs mainly by vegetative means, little is known about the role of its…
Type: Document
Year: 2010
Carroll, Cohn, Paveglio, Drader, Jakes
This article presents results from an interview-based case study examining burning practices of the Nez Perce tribe in the Inland Northwest in both their contemporary and historical policy context. Despite the lack of a prominent fire tradition, our…
Type: Document
Year: 2010
Krebs, Pezzatti, Mazzoleni, Talbot, Conedera
'Fire regime' has become, in recent decades, a key concept in many scientific domains. In spite of its wide spread use, the concept still lacks a clear and wide established definition. Many believe that it was first discussed in a famous report on…
Type: Document
Year: 2010
Miller, Davidson-Hunt
Much recent literature explores controlled burning practices used by people of different cultures to manipulate landscapes. Because humans have only recently been able to suppress fires occurring at larger scales these studies focus on activities…
Type: Document
Year: 2010
Bilbao, Leal, Méndez
In Canaima National Park (CNP), Venezuela, a protected area inhabited by the Pemón people, socio-cultural and demographic changes have contributed to the apparent unsustainable use of fire, leading to forest and habitat loss. This over-use of fire,…
Type: Document
Year: 2010