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Type: Conference Paper
Publication Date: 1974
From the text (p.345) ... 'The purpose of this study is to describe characteristics including frequency, size, season and severity of lightning fires in the Appalachians of Tennessee and North Carolina. Hopefullv it will help to provide a factual basis for the new fire policy called for in the Resource Management Plan of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The new policy would permit some lightning fires to burn freely to maintain plant communities which depend on fire for their perpetuation. At present the Park Service extinguishes all fires in the park.'
Citation: Barden, L. S., and F. W. Woods. 1974. Characteristics of lightning fires in southern Appalachian forests, Proceedings Annual [13th] Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference. Tallahassee, FL. Tall Timbers Research, Inc.,Tallahassee, FL. p. 345-361,
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- Appalachian Mountains
- bibliographies
- distribution
- elevation
- fire frequency
- fire intensity
- fire size
- fire suppression
- Great Smoky Mountains
- human caused fires
- humidity
- lightning
- lightning caused fires
- mountains
- national forests
- national parks
- North Carolina
- pine hardwood forests
- plant communities
- season of fire
- storms
- Tennessee
- wildfires
Tall Timbers Record Number: 9774 • Location Status: In-file • Call Number: Tall Timbers shelf • Abstract Status: Okay, Fair use, Reproduced by permission
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