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Type: Report
Author(s): R. Gordon Schmidt
Editor(s): Colin C. Hardy; Stephen F. Arno
Publication Date: 1996

This paper's title - "Can we restore the fire process? What awaits us if we don't?" - represents an ecologist's view of the world. I submit that this view is unrealistic. The first clause uses the term "restore" which implies reestablishing the fire process of the past. The second phrase uses the absolute term "don't" which implies that we can. Both of these phrases are too determinant for me. The 1995 International Conference of the Society of Ecological Restoration slogan challenges us to Take a Broader View." If we do that we can see the real challenge.

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Citation: Schmidt, R. Gordon. 1996. Can we restore the fire process? What awaits us if we don't? Pages 85-86. In: Hardy, Colin C.; Arno, Stephen F. (editors). The use of fire in forest restoration. General Technical Report INT-GTR-341. Ogden, UT: USDA Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station. 86 p.
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Keywords:
  • air quality
  • biomass
  • clearcutting
  • combustion
  • ecosystem dynamics
  • energy
  • fertilizers
  • fire adaptations
  • fire frequency
  • fire management planning
  • fire regimes
  • land use
  • multiple resource management
  • N - nitrogen
  • regeneration
  • temperature
  • wildfires
Tall Timbers Record Number: 12838 • Location Status: In-file • Call Number: A13.88:INT-341 • Abstract Status: Okay, Fair use, Reproduced by permission
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