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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, aerial ignition, Australia, bark, combustion, droughts, eucalyptus, European settlement, fire control, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire resistant plants, fuel accumulation, fuel appraisal, heat, presettlement fires, wildfires, wind
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