Document

Title

Nonwilderness wildland fire use is born on Kaibab National Forest
Document Type: Journal Article
Author(s): D. R. Mills
Publication Year: 2006

Cataloging Information

Keyword(s):
  • archaeological sites
  • Arizona
  • catastrophic fires
  • ecosystem dynamics
  • fire frequency
  • fire intensity
  • fire management
  • fire regimes
  • fire size
  • fire suppression
  • forest management
  • national forests
  • recreation
  • site treatments
  • suppression
  • US Forest Service
  • wildfires
  • wildlife habitat management
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Record Last Modified: June 3, 2019
FRAMES Record Number: 45537
Tall Timbers Record Number: 21074
TTRS Location Status: In-file
TTRS Call Number: A13.32:66/4
TTRS Abstract Status: Fair use, Okay, Reproduced by permission

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Description

From the text ... 'We saw how fire suppression efforts often did more damage than the fire itself -- as we also questioned the high costs of aggressive fire suppression.... Wven some members of the wildland fire management community found it difficult to imagine allowing wildfires to burn outside of wilderness boundaries.'

Online Link(s):
Link to the full Fire Management Today issue (6.2 MB; pdf)
Citation:
Mills, D. R. 2006. Nonwilderness wildland fire use is born on Kaibab National Forest. Fire Management Today, v. 66, no. 4, p. 13-15.