The Role of Prescribed Fire: Report of Futuring Group 6

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The Role of Prescribed Fire: Report of Futuring Group 6

Informally Refereed

Year:

1987

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Pacific Southwest Research Station

Source:

In: Davis, James B.; Martin, Robert E., technical coordinators. 1987. Proceedings of the Symposium on Wildland Fire 2000, April 27-30, 1987, South Lake Tahoe, California. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-101. Berkeley, CA: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; p. 249-250

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Abstract

Fire is a natural element of the wildland ecosystem. Total exclusion of fire from the wildland creates an unnatural condition: an excessive buildup of decadent and over mature vegetation.

Parent Publication

Proceedings of the symposium on wildland fire 2000; April 27-30, 1987; South Lake Tahoe, California

Citation

null 1987. The Role of Prescribed Fire: Report of Futuring Group 6. In: Davis, James B.; Martin, Robert E., technical coordinators. 1987. Proceedings of the Symposium on Wildland Fire 2000, April 27-30, 1987, South Lake Tahoe, California. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-101. Berkeley, CA: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; p. 249-250