History and management of crown-fire ecosystems: a summary and response
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Unnatural fuel accumulation in yellow pine forest has increased the potential for large, catastrophic crown fires, and hence reintroduction of prescribed fire is one remedy for this critical hazard. The fire management policy is best guided by contemporary analysis of fire behavior, in chaparral and other crown-fire ecosystems and particular attention should be paid on the rapidly expanding urban-wild land interface.
Publication Name: Conservation Biology
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0888-8892
Year: 2001
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Historic fire regime in Southern California shrublands
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Understanding the natural role of fire in chaparral ecosystems for proper fire management is discussed. The natural fire regime was lost due to the highly effective fire suppression and hence if fire managers can restore the regime of frequent fires with widespread prescription, burning the hazard of catastrophic fires could be eliminated.
Publication Name: Conservation Biology
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0888-8892
Year: 2001
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Fire Management Impacts on Invasive Plants in the Western United States
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The article examines forest fuel reduction, fuel breaks, fire suppression, prescription burning, targeting noxious invasive species, and post-fire rehabilitation, and concludes that fire management policies are unreliable means of controlling invasive plants.
Publication Name: Conservation Biology
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0888-8892
Year: 2006
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