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Benefits of Prescribed Fire [PDF]
EDIS, 2023 This publication gives an introductory overview of the role of fire in forest systems, the benefits of using prescribed fire as a part of forest management, and the necessary safety and regulatory precautions that landowners and land managers need to ...
Michael G. Andreu +2 more
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Prescribed fire gains momentum [PDF]
California Agriculture, 2019 In recent decades, California has made sparing use of fire as a land management tool. But policy changes, partnerships and attitude shifts are creating conditions for expanded use of prescribed fire.
Lucien Crowder
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Baptism of Fire: Modeling the Effects of Prescribed Fire on Lyme Disease. [PDF]
Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol, 2022 Recently, tick-borne illnesses have been trending upward and are an increasing source of risk to people’s health in the United States. This is due to range expansion in tick habitats as a result of climate change. Thus, it is imperative to find a practical and cost-efficient way of managing tick populations.
Guo E, Agusto FB.
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Encountering Prescribed Fire: Characterizing the Intersection of Prescribed Fire and Wildfire in the CONUS. [PDF]
ACS EST AirPrescribed fire is applied across the United States as a fuel treatment to manage the impact of wildfires and restore ecosystems. While the recent application of prescribed fire has largely been confined to the southeastern US, the increase in catastrophic wildfires has accelerated the growth of prescribed fire more broadly.
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Fire, 2021 Prescribed burning by Indigenous people was once ubiquitous throughout California. Settler colonialism brought immense investments in fire suppression by the United States Forest Service and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention (CAL ...
Tony Marks-Block, William Tripp
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California Prescribed Fire Monitoring Program: dataset 2019-2024 [PDF]
Scientific DataThe California Prescribed Fire Monitoring Program dataset (2019–2024) provides comprehensive ecological monitoring data from prescribed fire treatments across California’s diverse forest ecosystems.
Rut Domènech +11 more
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The Dunn Ranch Academy: Developing Wildland Fire Literacy through Hands-on Experience with Prescribed Fire Science and Management [PDF]
Fire, 2022 Wildland fire literacy is the capacity for wildland fire professionals to understand and communicate fundamentals of fuel and fire behavior within the socio-ecological elements of the fire regime.
Devan Allen McGranahan +4 more
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Perceptions of Prescribed Fire Among Ranchers near Northern US National Grasslands [PDF]
FireMany barriers prevent ranchers from supporting prescribed fire on grazing leases or their own land. Barriers include negative perceptions of fire resources limitations, and fear of liability.
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Land, 2022 Prescribed fire is increasingly being considered as a viable management tool by public and private land managers. Fully expanding prescribed fire use in a land management context, where it is an ecologically effective but not commonly applied tool ...
Autumn S. Clark +5 more
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Optimizing prescribed fire allocation for managing fire risk in central Catalonia [PDF]
Science of the Total Environment, 2018 We used spatial optimization to allocate and prioritize prescribed fire treatments in the fire-prone Bages County, central Catalonia (northeastern Spain). The goal of this study was to identify suitable strategic locations on forest lands for fuel treatments in order to: 1) disrupt major fire movements, 2) reduce ember emissions, and 3) reduce the ...
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