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Type: Journal Article
Publication Date: 2005
Following the fires of 2003 in southern California, the San Diego Fire Recovery Network was formed to help local communities and landscapes recover from fire effects. At one of the Network's meetings, a poster was presented showing the perimeters of fires that did not overlap. The conclusion was drawn that fuel modification through prescription burning is a valuable management technique capable of preventing catastrophic wildfire losses. Similar analyses and conclusions have been published before for chaparral landscapes.
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Link to the full Fire Management Today issue (936 KB; pdf)
Citation: Keeley, J. E. 2005. Chaparral fuel modification: what do we know - and need to know? Fire Management Today 65(4):11-12.
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Keywords:
- age classes
- backfire
- chaparral
- climatology
- community recovery
- fire case histories
- fire damage
- fire hazard reduction
- fire injuries (plants)
- fire injury
- fire intensity
- fire management
- fire size
- fire suppression
- fire weather
- firefighting personnel
- Foehn winds
- fuel breaks
- fuel management
- fuel modification
- fuel types
- ignition
- invasive species
- landscape ecology
- plant communities
- post-fire recovery
- wilderness areas
- wildfires
Tall Timbers Record Number: 18332 • Location Status: In-file • Call Number: A13.32:65/4 • Abstract Status: Fair use, Okay, Reproduced by permission
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