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From the text ... 'While most of today's longleaf forests are found on public lands, having grown back from forests cut in the early 20th century, private landowners are taking a new look at the longleaf pine's drought-resistant qualities. A quiet longleaf revival is beginning…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: age classes, Aristida stricta, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire resistant plants, fire suppression, flowering, forest management, gopher tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus, grasses, ground cover, hardwood forests, hardwoods, insects, invasive species, keystone species, logging, longleaf pine, mortality, Native Americans, native species (plants), needles, north Florida, old growth forests, pine forests, pine, Pinus palustris, private lands, rate of spread, recreation, reptiles, sandhills, season of fire, seed production, seedlings, smoke effects, streams, understory vegetation, watershed management, watersheds, wildlife habitat management
The Review and Update of the 1995 Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy (January 2001) remains sound and presents a single cohesive federal fire policy for the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture. However, some issues associated with implementation of this policy need…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Planning, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management planning
From the text ... 'Once again, advocates of prescribed burning are busy trying to educate both the public and bureaucrats. Lane Green, Tall Timbers' executive director, says a big challenge for land managers is explaining the short-term, long-term calculus of prescribed burning…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Outreach, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, Beadel, H.L., brush, C - carbon, Colinus virginianus, conservation easements, education, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, forest management, game birds, hardwoods, hunting, land management, natural areas management, north Florida, particulates, pine forests, plantations, public information, Red Hills, seedlings, Smokey Bear program, Stoddard, H.L., Tall Timbers Research Station, understory vegetation, wildfires
Fire is a worldwide phenomenon that appears in the geological record soon after the appearance of terrestrial plants. Fire influences global ecosystem patterns and processes, including vegetation distribution and structure, the carbon cycle, and climate. Although humans and fire…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire management, fire regimes, carbon cycle, climate change, ecosystem processes, vegetation distribution, vegetation structure, aerosols, agriculture, biomass burning, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, climatology, combustion, crown fires, deforestation, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, distribution, fine fuels, fire control, fire protection, fire resistant plants, fire size, grazing, human caused fires, ignition, invasive species, O - oxygen, plant communities, soil leaching, surface fires, vegetation surveys, volatilization, wildfires