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Document
Type: Book
Publication Date: 1968
This note outlines the objectives and problems of prescribed burning as a tool of forest management. The importance of a number of weather factors is discussed and suggestions are presented for provision of effective weather guidance to forest officers concerned with this problem.
Citation: Turner, J. A. 1968. Weather and slash burning. Technical Memoranda. Toronto, Ontario, Department of Transport: Meteorological Branch.
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Keywords:
- Canada
- coniferous forests
- fire control
- fire hazard reduction
- fire intensity
- fire management
- forest management
- fuel loading
- fuel moisture
- grazing
- logging
- moisture
- Ontario
- rate of spread
- regeneration
- slash
- sloping terrain
- soil moisture
- topography
- wildlife management
- wind
Tall Timbers Record Number: 13113 • Location Status: In-file • Call Number: Fire File DDW • Abstract Status: Okay, Fair use, Reproduced by permission
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