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Prescribed burning is a preferred treatment in many fuel management situations because of its low cost, campatibility with other land-use objectives, and little or not undesirable side effects. The problems, limitations, and associated consequences of fire treatments are…
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, backfires, broadcast burning, brush, burning intervals, CO - carbon monoxide, coastal plain, cutting, fire hazard reduction, fire regimes, firebreaks, flank fires, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, fuel moisture, heavy fuels, hydrocarbons, ignition, land use, litter, multiple resource management, particulates, pine forests, regeneration, season of fire, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, understory vegetation, wildfires