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Johnson, Miyanishi, O'Brien
Climate modelling studies have predicted an increase in fire frequency with global warming as well as suggesting a longer fire season occurring later in the year. We used 160 years of fire scars in Pinus banksiana Lamb. dating from 1831 to 1948 and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Rodríguez-Trejo
From the text...'The worst fire season in Mexican history was in 1998. Drought conditions precipitated by a strong El Niño led to unusual fire activity, including crown fires, fire whirls, and rapid spread rates. A total of 14,302 fires burned 2,099…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Roberts
The 1996 fire season illustrated the potential impacts of wildland fires on the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) administered lands through numerous western states. During the 1996 fire season, over six million acres burned in the United States…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Gebert, Schuster
A quantitative tool was developed to predict USDA Forest Service fire suppression expenditures by fiscal year on the basis of fire activity data (i.e., number of fires and acres burned) from Incident Management Situation Reports. Regional regression…
Year: 1999
Type: Document