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Type: Conference Proceedings
Author(s): Reynaldo Valencia Ruiz
Editor(s): Peter F. Ffolliott; Leonard F. DeBano; Malchus B. Baker Jr.; Gerald J. Gottfried; Gilberto Solis-Garza; Carleton B. Edminster; Daniel G. Neary; Larry S. Allen; Robert H. Hamre
Publication Date: 1996

This paper is a review of literature relating forest fire effects on humans and the environment. lt presents some cases from traditional countries that have forest resources and their approach to fire management, and ends with a case in which a mathematical formula was employed to calculate forest fire damage in a tract of forest of 3.6 hectares in the state of Michoacan, Mexico.

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Citation: Ruiz, Reynaldo Valenzuela. 1996. Forest fires and their social and economic impacts. Pages 49-54 in: Ffolliott, Peter F.; DeBano, Leonard F.; Baker, Malchus B.; Gottfried, Gerald J.; Solis-Garza, Gilberto; Edminster, Carleton B.; Neary, Daniel G.; Allen, Larry S.; Hamre, R. H. (technical coordinators). Effects of fire on Madrean Province ecosystems: a symposium proceedings. General Technical Report RM-GTR-289. Fort Collins, CO: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station.

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Keywords:
  • age classes
  • agriculture
  • arid regions
  • Arizona
  • coniferous forests
  • ecosystem dynamics
  • ecotones
  • fire frequency
  • fire hazard reduction
  • fire management
  • forest fire damage appraisal
  • forest management
  • grazing
  • human caused fires
  • land use
  • literature review
  • livestock
  • Mexico
  • nutrients
  • raptors
  • recreation related fires
  • regeneration
  • reproduction
  • roads
  • serotiny
  • slash and burn
  • soils
  • Spain
  • temperate forests
  • tropical forest
  • vegetation surveys
  • wildfires
Tall Timbers Record Number: 20046Location Status: Not in fileCall Number: A13.88:RM-289Abstract Status: Okay, Fair use, Reproduced by permission
Record Last Modified:
Record Maintained By: FRAMES Staff (https://www.frames.gov/contact)
FRAMES Record Number: 14239

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