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From the text 'Fire has had an important place in the development of Southern forests. It has been particularly important in the perpetuation of the pine forests of the Coastal Plain, as well as many other pine areas. Nevertheless, the destructive effects of fire are better…
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, backfires, brush, coastal plain, crown scorch, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, firebreaks, firing techniques, flank fires, Fomes annosus, forest management, fuel management, Georgia, germination, hardwood forests, hardwoods, headfires, humidity, lightning, litter, logging, openings, pine forests, pine, Pinus, plant diseases, rate of spread, regeneration, Scirrhia acicola, season of fire, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, species diversity (plants), temperature, thinning, trees, understory vegetation, vegetation surveys, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, wind, wood
[From the introduction] Fire has been an important disturbance process for millennia in the wildlands of the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon and southeastern Washington. Records from early explorers and on many older trees suggest that fires burned at frequent intervals in…
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: Abies grandis, Abies lasiocarpa, Blue Mountains, Douglas-fir, fire regimes, grasslands, Juniperus occidentalis, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, Pseudotsuga menziesii, grand fir, mountain hemlock, Oregon, subalpine fir, Tsuga mertensiana, western juniper, shrublands, Agropyron spicatum, air quality, bark, bibliographies, community ecology, crown fires, disturbance, ecology, ecosystem dynamics, Festuca idahoensis, Festuca viridula, fire adaptations, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire size, forbs, grasses, histories, landscape ecology, Larix occidentalis, montane forests, mountains, overstory, pine forests, plant communities, plant growth, post-fire recovery, regeneration, resprouting, season of fire, seed dispersal, seed dormancy, size classes, smoke effects, soils, species diversity, succession, surface fires, understory vegetation, Washington, wildfires