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Title
Forest fire protection: CRS report for Congress Document Type: Book
Author(s): R. W. Gorte
Publication Year: 2000
Cataloging Information
Keyword(s):
- adaptation
- agriculture
- air quality
- appropriations
- backfires
- biomass
- blowups
- broadcast burning
- brush
- catastrophic fires
- Cerro Grande Fire
- chaparral
- coniferous forests
- croplands
- crown fires
- crowns
- dead fuels
- decay
- decomposition
- disaster relief funding
- droughts
- erosion
- experimental fires
- FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency
- fine fuels
- fire case histories
- fire control
- fire damage (property)
- fire damage protection
- fire dependent species
- fire frequency
- fire intensity
- fire protection
- fire retardants
- fire size
- fire suppression
- firefighting personnel
- forest and rangeland health
- forest management
- fuel accumulation
- fuel ladder
- fuel loading
- fuel moisture
- glassificatrion
- grasses
- grazing
- heavy fuels
- histories
- human caused fires
- hunting
- Idaho
- ignition
- incendiary fires
- insects
- insurance
- invasive species
- land use
- leaves
- lightning caused fires
- live fuels
- livestock
- logging
- minerals
- mining
- Montana
- mortality
- national forests
- Native Americans
- natural resource legislation
- needles
- New Mexico
- overstory
- particulates
- pine forests
- pine hardwood forests
- prescribed fires (escaped)
- private lands
- public information
- range management
- roles and responsibilities
- salvage
- season of fire
- sedimentation
- seed dispersal
- site treatments
- size classes
- slash
- sloping terrain
- slurry
- slurry bombers
- Smokey Bear program
- soils
- species diversity (plants)
- statistical analysis
- stewardship
- surface fires
- surface fuels
- thinning
- trees
- understory vegetation
- US Forest Service
- water quality
- wilderness fire management
- wildfires
- wildlife
- wind
- Wisconsin
- woody fuels
- Yellowstone National Park
Topic(s):
- Aquatic
- Climate
- Economics
- Emissions and Smoke
- Fire Behavior
- Fire Ecology
- Fire Effects
- Fire History
- Fire Occurrence
- Fire Prevention
- Fuels
- Hazard and Risk
- Intelligence
- Logistics
- Monitoring and Inventory
- Outreach
- Prescribed Fire
- Regulations and Legislation
- Safety
- Social Science
- Weather
- Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
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Record Last Modified: June 14, 2018
FRAMES Record Number: 43175
Tall Timbers Record Number: 18359
TTRS Location Status: In-file
TTRS Call Number: Fire File
TTRS Abstract Status: Fair use, Okay, Reproduced by permission
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Citation:
Gorte, R. W. 2000. Forest fire protection: CRS report for Congress. Washington, D.C., Congressional Research Service, The Library of Congress.