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Conducting Prescribed Fires
John Robert Weir
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Description for Conducting Prescribed Fires
Paperback. 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. This manual offers a step-by-step guide to the systematic application of burning to meet specific land management needs and goals. Num Pages: 256 pages, 93 b&w photos, index. BIC Classification: RNF; TVB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 590.
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 wildlife habitat, control parasites, manage forest lands, remove hazardous fuel in the wildland-urban interface, and create residential buffer zones. In this practical and helpful manual, John R. Weir, who has conducted more than 720 burns in four states, offers a step-by-step guide to the systematic application of burning to meet specific land management needs and goals.
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 wildlife habitat, control parasites, manage forest lands, remove hazardous fuel in the wildland-urban interface, and create residential buffer zones. In this practical and helpful manual, John R. Weir, who has conducted more than 720 burns in four states, offers a step-by-step guide to the systematic application of burning to meet specific land management needs and goals.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Place of Publication
College Station, United States
ISBN
9781603441346
SKU
V9781603441346
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99-99
About John Robert Weir
John Robert Greene is the Paul J. Schupf Professor of History and Humanities at Cazenovia College. Among his other books are The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford and The Presidency of George Bush (see page 49), and The Limits of Power: The Nixon and Ford Administrations.
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