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Vega-García, Lee, Woodard, Titus
Human-caused forest fires are a serious problem throughout the world. Believing that there are predictable characteristics common to all fires, we analyzed the historical human-caused fire occurrence data for the Whitecourt Provincial Forest of…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Sackett, Haase
Natural forest fuel loadings cause extreme fire behavior during dry, windy weather experienced during most fire seasons in the Southwest. Fire severity is also exacerbated from burning heavy fuels, including heavy humus layers on the forest floor.…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Swetnam, Baisan
ln this paper we summarize historical fire regime patterns reconstructed using fire-scarred tree-ring specimens from seventeen montane forest sites in the Madrean Borderlands. ln addition to a brief description of general patterns we also illustrate…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Williams
A study of the effects of exposure (aspect and slope angle) and natural shade on the moisture content of Douglas fir logging slash indicates that, throughout most of the fire season, such effects are not great enough to be of practical significance…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Barney
Field personnel in all forest fire protection agencies need some simple but reasonably accurate method for evaluating severity of the fire season as it progresses and of comparing severity of the current season with that of preceding fire seasons.…
Year: 1964
Type: Document