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From the text ... 'A manager has limited options for reducing fuel loading. Thinning and herbicides offer only partial benefits compared to prescribed burning use. Thinning operations are not practical every three-to-four years (that's how long the thinning effect lasted); therefore a manager has the options of either prescribed burn every two-to-three years or use herbicides. While repeated herbicide applications may be effective, they can be expensive and a fuel hazard continues to exist from standing dead shrubs for up to 18 months. Even then, the specter of tree mortality from root mortality remains if herbicide alone is used. The potential to combine the long-lasting benefits of herbicide with the immediate benefits of prescribed burning to solve both the fire intensity and root mortality problems is the subject of new research.'
Cataloging Information
- dead fuels
- decomposition
- droughts
- ecosystem dynamics
- fire dependent species
- fire exclusion
- fire frequency
- fire hazard reduction
- fire injuries (plants)
- fire intensity
- fire management
- fire regimes
- fire suppression
- flatwoods
- fragmentation
- fuel accumulation
- fuel loading
- fuel management
- fuel types
- ground cover
- hardwood forests
- herbaceous vegetation
- herbicides
- humus
- Ilex glabra
- litter
- mortality
- Myrica cerifera
- National Fire Plan
- natural areas management
- pine forests
- roots
- Sabal palmetto
- season of fire
- Serenoa repens
- shrubs
- surface fires
- thinning
- understory vegetation
- wildfires
- woody fuels
- woody plants
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