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To burn or not to burn? That is the question--or is it? If we have forests, we'll have fuels. If we do not control the buildup of fuels one way or the other, we'll have fires and many of them will be bad. We'll have them as a result of either man's action or nature's lightning. If these projections are sound, then really the questions are: should we use prescribed fire to control our fuels, can we afford other means of fuel manipulation, can we develop less expensive alternatives, can we tolerate all wildland fires; or should we build up suppression forces to the point where we can subdue all wildfires before they have a chance to move out? I think we can answer these questions with some satisfaction by examining the pros and cons of prescribed burning.
Cataloging Information
- air quality
- CO - carbon monoxide
- coastal plain
- combustion
- crown scorch
- disturbance
- environmental impact analysis
- fire control
- fire exclusion
- fire hazard reduction
- fire injuries (plants)
- fire management
- fire protection
- fire regimes
- fire suppression
- forest management
- fuel types
- gases
- hardwoods
- hydrocarbons
- light burning
- lightning
- low intensity burns
- mortality
- multiple resource management
- national forests
- particulates
- pine forests
- plant growth
- pollution
- sedimentation
- seedlings
- site treatments
- smoke behavior
- smoke effects
- South Carolina
- sprouting
- understory vegetation
- wildfires
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