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Type: Conference Paper
Author(s): Willard P. Leenhouts
Editor(s): D. C. Bryan
Publication Date: 1997

Wildland fire has shaped the conterminous United States for millennia. During the presettlement era between 4.5 and 11 percent of the landscape burned annually. Today approximately 0.8 percent burns annually. Fire emission estimates from presettlement wildland fire and present wildland fire are proportionally similar.

Citation: Leenhouts, W. P. 1997. Presettlement fire and emission production estimates: a framework for understanding potential system change, in Bryan, D. C., Proceedings of the environmental regulation & prescribed fire conference: legal and social challenges. Tampa, FL. Center for Professional Development, Florida State University,Tallahassee, FL. p. 236-241,

Cataloging Information

Topics:
Fire Ecology    Fire History    Mapping    Models
Regions:
Alaska    California    Eastern    Great Basin    Hawaii    Northern Rockies    Northwest    Rocky Mountain    Southern    Southwest    National
Keywords:
  • air quality
  • coniferous forests
  • fire frequency
  • forest management
  • habitat types
  • pine forests
  • presettlement fires
  • rangelands
  • wilderness fire management
  • wildfires
Tall Timbers Record Number: 10495 • Location Status: In-file • Abstract Status: Okay, Fair use, Reproduced by permission
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FRAMES Record Number: 36149

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