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Conducting prescribed fires : a comprehensive manual /

Landowners and managers, municipalities, the logging and livestock industries, and conservation professionals all increasingly recognize that setting prescribed fires may reduce the devastating effects of wildfire, control invasive brush and weeds, improve livestock range and health, maintain wildli...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weir, John Robert, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2009.
Edición:1st ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Why conduct prescribed fires?
  • Law and liability
  • Prescribed fire policy
  • Public relations
  • Fire weather
  • Fire behavior and fuel characteristics
  • Fire prescriptions
  • Fire plans
  • Personal safety
  • Firebreaks
  • Fire equipment
  • Ignition devices
  • Ignition techniques
  • Smoke management
  • Postburn mop-up
  • Prescribed fire associations.