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A guide for prescribed fire on southern forests
| Author: |
Mobley, H.E.; Jackson, R.S.; Balmer, R.E. [and others] |
| Date: |
1989 |
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Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Region. Tech.Pub. R8-TP 11. [22 p.]
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| Link: |
http://flame.fl-dof.com/Env/RX/guide/introduction.html
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| Abstract: |
The use of fire in the forests of the United States has come full cycle. Early settlers found Indians using fire in the virgin pine stands and adopted the practice themselves to keep down brush for better access and hunting and to get rid of the brush and timber so they could farm. This custom of setting fires plus careless wildfires left millions of acres in the South nonproductive. The increasing wildfire problem caused many foresters to advocate the exclusion of all fire from the woods. By the turn of the 20th century, however, some pointed out that fire might have a place in the management of longleaf pine. As early as 1907, people began to use fire to reduce fuels on the forest floor. Research and experimental burning were begun in the 1930’s and the use of prescribed fire increased. Today, prescribed burning is an established resource management tool in southern pine forests |
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