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From the Conclusion: 'The fire management program at Everglades National Park should continue to expand. With the recent development of a fire ecology research capability at the park, evaluation of the effects of the fire management program and the role of fire in the park is…
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: Alligator mississippiensis, Cladium jamaicense, coastal vegetation, droughts, European settlement, everglades, fire dependent species, fire injuries (property), fire management, fire protection, fire regimes, fire suppression, grasses, hardwoods, health factors, human caused fires, invasive species, Juncus roemerianus, lightning caused fires, litter, marshlands, mosaic, Muhlenbergia filipes, Mycteria americana, national parks, Native Americans, Pinus elliottii densa, prairies, precipitation, Schizachyrium rhizomatum, season of fire, seasonal activities, smoke management, soil moisture, south Florida, Spartina bakeri, statistical analysis, succession, swamps, tropical hardwood hammocks, water, wetlands, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, woody plants
From the summary ... 'Prescribed burning can be done with few adverse effects on air quality by employing recently developed smoke management techniques. Professionals who plan and direct prescribed burning activities try to avoid causing public inconvenience due to smoke.…
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Economics, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, Alabama, Appalachian Mountains, arthropods, bibliographies, biogeography, burning permits, Carya, climax vegetation, coastal plain, competition, distribution, energy, fire hazard reduction, Florida, Fomes annosus, forest management, fuel management, Georgia, health factors, humus, insects, Kentucky, light burning, litter, livestock, Louisiana, mineral soils, Mississippi, natural resource legislation, North Carolina, Nyssa, organic matter, particulates, Piedmont, Pinus echinata, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, plant diseases, prairies, Quercus, range management, reforestation, regeneration, site treatments, sloping terrain, smoke management, South Carolina, succession, Taxodium, Tennessee, Texas, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
As early as 1890, thoughtful persons had observed and pointed out that controlled fire might have a place and was possibly necessary in the silviculture of longleaf pine. Dr. Roland Harper, a botonist, proposed its use for understory hardwood control from 1911 to urge the use of…
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerial ignition, artificial regeneration, forage, forest management, grazing, hardwoods, longleaf pine, pine forests, pine, Pinus palustris, seeds, site treatments, slash, slash pine, smoke management, wildlife