Use of prescribed fire to reduce wildfire potential

Abstract

Fires were a part of our wildlands prehistorically. Prescribed burning reduces fire hazard and potential fire behavior primarily by reducing fuel quantity and continuity. Fuel continuity should be considered on the micro scale within stands, the mid-scale among, and the macro-scale among watersheds or entire forests. Prescribed fire is only one of the tools which can be used to reduce fire hazard, but it can be effective at all scales.

Parent Publication

• Proceedings of the symposium on fire and watershed management

Citation

Martin, Robert E.; Kauffman, J. Boone, Landsberg, Joan D. 1989. Use of prescribed fire to reduce wildfire potential. In: Berg, Neil H. tech. coord. Proceedings of the Symposium on Fire and Watershed Management: October 26-28, 1988, Sacramento, California. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-109. Berkeley, Calif.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station: 17-22