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Type: Journal Article
Author(s): H. Brown
Publication Date: 2001

From the text ... 'The goal is to restore healthy forest ecosystems, including historical fire regimes. ... For decades, the Forest Service treated all fire, regardless of type or site, as a threat to forest health.'

Citation: Brown, H. 2001. Reducing fire danger: is current policy on course? [including: a land use revolution; conservation use: a principle of sustainability; and fire control legacy. Fire Management Today, v. 61, no. 4, p. 18-25.

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Regions:
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Keywords:
  • air quality
  • artificial regeneration
  • bibliographies
  • catastrophic fires
  • clearcutting
  • coniferous forests
  • conservation
  • ecosystem dynamics
  • education
  • erosion
  • fire control
  • fire exclusion
  • fire hazard reduction
  • fire intensity
  • fire management
  • fire regimes
  • fire suppression
  • forest management
  • forest products
  • fuel accumulation
  • fuel appraisal
  • fuel management
  • grasslands
  • grazing
  • histories
  • Idaho
  • land use
  • landscape ecology
  • livestock
  • logging
  • mining
  • multiple resource management
  • national forests
  • natural resource legislation
  • old growth forests
  • Oregon
  • Pinus ponderosa
  • Pseudotsuga menziesii
  • public information
  • range management
  • recreation
  • rivers
  • roads
  • runoff
  • season of fire
  • slash
  • Strix occidentalis
  • Tall Timbers Research Station
  • thinning
  • understory vegetation
  • US Forest Service
  • Washington
  • water quality
  • watershed management
  • wilderness fire management
  • wildfires
  • wildlife habitat management
Tall Timbers Record Number: 15773 • Location Status: In-file • Call Number: A13.32:61/4 • Abstract Status: Fair use, Okay, Reproduced by permission
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FRAMES Record Number: 40958

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