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Fire for Backyard Pines: Florida Environment Radio
Southeast U.S. flourished, partly as a result of frequent, low-intensity fires that cleared away dead matter and kept competing plants in check. ... fe30423 If some Florida Scientists have their way, you'll be seeing fires on golf courses here. It turns out they're the ... healthy. And there's new research suggesting the same kind of fires might benefit the pines in your own backyard. Botanist Francis ...
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NMPIF Forests 2
(Ganey et al. 1996 in Ffolliott et al. 1996). Fires ... Fires are often stand-replacing fires, sterilizing the soils and destroying habitat for many species. They burn overstory trees and are costly to fight. Recovery of bird populations in high-intensity ...
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NMPIF Forests 3
Recurrent, low-intensity fires occurred at 2-10 year intervals prior to about 1900, when fires suppression actions were taken. These fires helped maintain open, parklike vistas, with ... the importance of fire in ponderosa pine forest. The differences between stand-replacing fires and cool, low-intensity fires need to be conveyed to the public. Table 2. Ponderosa Pine ...
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SAF - Policy and Press: Position Statements - Wildfire Management
Issue High intensity fires often result in unacceptable risk to the public and firefighters, property, and a variety of ecological, economic, and social values. Suppression and rehabilitation costs increase significantly with high intensity fires. When fires ...
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Ponderosa Pine Forests of the Colorado Plateau
Before European settlement, widespread surface fires that occurred every 2-15 years favored grasses and limited pine ... and occasional shrubs beneath, as young ponderosa seedlings were often killed by the low-intensity fires while mature pines, with their thick yellowish red bark, were only scarred. The effects ...
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Wildfire History and Ecology on the Colorado Plateau
Pinyon-juniper woodlands, ponderosa pine forests, and drier mixed conifer forests shifted from a fire regime of frequent, surface fires to one of stand-replacing, high-intensity fires ...
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Welcome to Environmental Review - Archives - 2004
California. These drier forests evolved in the presence of frequent grass fires started by lightning. Every year or two a grass fire ... under- story of the forest of fuels for future fires. These frequent, low intensity fires did not usually burn hot enough or long enough ... shown that they have lived through as many as 200 low intensity fires. Such fire-adapted forests had a different look from their ...
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Kettle Range Conservation Group
(SNEP 1996, Agee 1998). Despite substantial investments of both financial and human resources, many large fires are not successfully controlled or extinguished by fire fighting efforts; instead, they are extinguished when the weather changes (Romme and Despain 1989). Roadless areas have lower potential for high-intensity fires ...
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Letters and Articles on Forest Issues - 7/9/97 onwards (number 71 -> )
These changes compound the problem. The Aboriginal approach was to learn how to use fire to manage fire. They instigated frequent low-intensity fires in ... the absence of forest-protester type greenies at the Caledonia/alpine National Park bush fires. I appreciate Mr Blackwoods frustration. A third generation logger, he feels a strong attraction ...
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Yellowstone Fires
It is a function of the frequency of fire occurrence, fire intensity ... fuel management the treatment of live and dead vegetation to prevent large-scale, high-intensity wildland fires and to maintain healthy ecosystems. geologic processes natural phenomena that operate at the earth' ...
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