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Prescribed burning has been used by the North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation (DPR) since 1974 to reduce hazardous fuel loads, to restore/maintain specific habitats, and to preserve rare species populations within state parks, recreation areas, and natural areas.…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: coastal plain, education, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, Georgia, liability, mountains, natural areas management, natural resource legislation, North Carolina, Piedmont, pine hardwood forests, prescribed fires (escaped), public information, recreation, savannas, South Carolina, state parks, Virginia, wildfires, fire-dependent communities, interagency burn team, state parks and natural areas
From the text ... 'But first, before going into the future, I want to talk a little bit about the present and the past and in Florida. Over the last 10 years, Florida has burned, on average, about two million acres a year. That includes silviculture, agriculture, and land…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire size, agriculture, air quality, liability, public information, Florida, fire management, forest management, smoke management
Science continues to show the need for the use of prescribed fire in oak-dominated forests of the eastern United States. Fire is necessary to reduce competition by thin-barked species, allowing for the development of oak advance regeneration. Many agencies are beginning to apply…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: state forests, Division of Forestry, Ohio, oak-dominated communities, prescribed fire program, air quality, competition, deciduous forests, fire exclusion, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, hardwood forest, oak, precipitation, Quercus, regeneration, season of fire, smoke management
Landowners and managers, municipalities, the logging and livestock industries, and conservation professionals all increasingly recognize that setting prescribed fires may reduce the devastating effects of wildfire, control invasive brush and weeds, improve livestock range and…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: human dimension, public relations, smoke management, mop up