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Ffolliott
Fire, either as a natural occurrence or a management tool, can have beneficial effects on the environment, and its use offers opportunities for reducing fuel loads, disposing of slash, preparing seedbeds, thinning stands, increasing herbaceous plant…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Daniel
Obstacles to public acceptance of prescribed fire include misunderstanding of fire in forest ecosystems, concerned risk to life and property and assumed adverse effects on scenic and recreation values. Increased appreciation of the ecological,…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Cortner, Taylor, Carpenter, Cleaves
Fire managers from five western regions of the USDA Forest Service were surveyed to determine which decision factors most strongly influenced their fire-risk behavior. Three fire-decision contexts were tested: Escaped Wildfire, Prescribed Burning,…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Cargill
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Manfredo, Fishbein, Hass, Watson
ANNOTATION: This article discusses social considerations with respect to public wildland forest fire policy. Social attitudes, beliefs and behavioral intentions of wildland fire are described as well as the public's knowledge of the effects of fire…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Fischer, McMurray
[from the text] The Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) was developed by the Intermountain Research Station in cooperation with the University of Montana. This system is a computerized information storage and retrieval system that was developed…
Year: 1990
Type: Document