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Factors Influencing County Commissioners’ Decisions about Burn Bans in the Southern Plains, USA
Land, 2021 Woody plant encroachment in North American rangelands has led to calls for greater use of prescribed fire to reduce fuel loads and restore grazing productivity and grassland biodiversity.
Thomas W. McDaniel +3 more
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Occupational PAH Exposures during Prescribed Pile Burns [PDF]
The Annals of Occupational Hygiene, 2008 Wildland firefighters are exposed to particulate matter and gases containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), many of which are known carcinogens. Our objective was to evaluate the extent of firefighter exposure to particulate and PAHs during prescribed pile burns of mainly ponderosa pine slash and determine whether these exposures were ...
M S, Robinson +6 more
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Where to prescribe burn: the costs and benefits of prescribed burning close to houses [PDF]
International Journal of Wildland Fire, 2019 Prescribed burning is used in Australia as a tool to manage fire risk and protect assets. A key challenge is deciding how to arrange the burns to generate the highest benefits to society. Studies have shown that prescribed burning in the wildland–urban interface (WUI) can reduce the risk of house loss due to wildfires, but the costs and benefits of ...
Veronique Florec +4 more
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Molecules, 2007 Fire is a dominant ecological factor in Mediterranean-type ecosystems. Management strategies include prescribed (controlled) burning, which has been used in the management of several species, such as Pinus nigra ssp laricio var. Corsicana, a pine endemic
Lila Ferrat +4 more
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Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2020 The prescribed burning is one of the most important actions within an extensive network of planning of ecological, cultural, socioeconomic and technical factors that are contemplated in the Integrated and Adaptive Fire Management.
Allan Deyvid Pereira da Silva +5 more
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Grazing in California's Mediterranean Multi-Firescapes
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 The California landscape is layered and multifunctional, both historically and spatially. Currently, wildfire size, frequency, and intensity are without precedent, at great cost to human health, property, and lives.
Lynn Huntsinger +2 more
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Evolution of trace gases and particles emitted by a chaparral fire in California [PDF]
, 2012 Biomass burning (BB) is a major global source of trace gases and particles. Accurately representing the production and evolution of these emissions is an important goal for atmospheric chemical transport models.
Akagi, S. K. +11 more
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Fire effects on gambel oak in southwestern ponderosa pine-oak forests [PDF]
, 2008 Gambel oak (Quercus gambelii) is ecologically and aesthetically valuable in southwestern ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests. Fire effects on Gambel oak are important because fire may be used in pine-oak forests to manage oak directly or to ...
Abella, Scott R., Fule, Peter Z.
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Top-down estimate of a large source of atmospheric carbon monoxide associated with fuel combustion in Asia [PDF]
, 2002 We simulate the oceanic and atmospheric distribution of methyl iodide (CH3I) with a global 3-D model driven by assimilated meteorological observations from the Goddard Earth Observing System of the NASA Data Assimilation Office and coupled to an oceanic ...
Altshuler +22 more
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FireFire management techniques play a critical role in mitigating the impact of bushfires on communities and ecosystems. In Australia, government agencies implement hazard reduction burn programs, while Indigenous communities have used fire for ecosystem ...
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