Document

Title

Fires 2000: fact vs. fiction
Document Type: Journal Article
Author(s): S. W. Barrett
Publication Year: 2001

Cataloging Information

Keyword(s):
  • catastrophic fires
  • coniferous forests
  • crown fires
  • dendrochronology
  • ecosystem dynamics
  • fire adaptations (plants)
  • fire dependent species
  • fire exclusion
  • fire frequency
  • fire hazard reduction
  • fire injuries (plants)
  • fire management
  • fire regimes
  • fire scar analysis
  • fire suppression
  • forest management
  • fuel accumulation
  • fuel management
  • Idaho
  • landscape ecology
  • Larix occidentalis
  • light burning
  • logging
  • low intensity burns
  • Montana
  • mortality
  • national forests
  • Pinus ponderosa
  • population density
  • Pseudotsuga menziesii
  • salvage
  • thinning
  • Washington
  • wildfires
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Record Last Modified: May 22, 2019
FRAMES Record Number: 40959
Tall Timbers Record Number: 15774
TTRS Location Status: In-file
TTRS Call Number: A13.32:61/4
TTRS Abstract Status: Fair use, Okay, Reproduced by permission

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Description

From the text ... 'For some forests burned in 2000, still on a natural fire cycle, forest health was not an issue.'

Online Link(s):
Link to the full Fire Management Today issue (1 MB; pdf)
Citation:
Barrett, S. W. 2001. Fires 2000: fact vs. fiction. Fire Management Today, v. 61, no. 4, p. 26-27.