The Biswell symposium: fire issues and solutions in urban interface and wildland ecosystems

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Document Type: Report

Coordinator(s): David R. Weise; Robert E. Martin

Publication Year: 1995

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community response
ecosystem management
fire management
fuel management

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Record Last Modified: December 13, 2016

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These proceedings summarize the results of a symposium designed to address current issues about wildfire and prescribed fire in both the wildland-urban interface and in wildlands. Thirty-eight invited oral papers and 23 poster papers describing the issues and state-of-the-art solutions to technical, biological, and social challenges currently facing land and fire managers were presented at The Biswell Symposium held February 15-17, 1994, in Walnut Creek, California.

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Weise, David R.; Martin, Robert E. 1995. The Biswell symposium: fire issues and solutions in urban interface and wildland ecosystems. General Technical Report PSW-GTR-158. Albany, CA: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. 199 p.

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