A reduction in prescribed fire emissions (30% fire case) results in significant improvement in air quality in areas in western Oregon, northern Idaho, and western Montana, where most prescribed fires occur. Prescribed burning contributes to visibility impairment, and a relatively large portion of ...
A new report from EPA, in collaboration with other government agencies, outlines some of the advantages and drawbacks of intentionally-set “prescribed” fires as a land management tool to prevent worse blazes driven by climate change, but also finds significant data gaps and unanswered questions ov...
When humans perform a prescribed burn, the goal is to remove that layer of decay in a controlled manner, allowing the healthy parts of the ecosystem to thrive.(当腐烂的植物开始在地面上堆积时,它们可能会阻止生物获取土壤中的营养物质,或者阻止陆地上的动物进入土壤。这层死有机物的涂层也可以阻止小...
prescribed fire, form of land management in which fire is intentionally applied to vegetation. Prescribed fires are conducted under desired conditions to meet specific objectives, such as to restore fireregimesin adaptedecosystemsor to limit the amount of dry brush in an area prone towildfires. Two...
Ifthese fuel sources build up without any type of removal, the 'fuel load can lead tofires catastrophic to forests and people alike In contrast prescribed fire can be used by forest professionals everycouple of years to keep fores fuels at an appropriate and manageable leve. ...
The 2019–2020 Australian forest fires are a harbinger of decreased prescribed burning effectiveness under rising extreme conditions Introduction Southeast Asia contains 25 million hectares of tropical peatland, mostly in Indonesia1. Indonesian peatlands store an estimated 57 Gt of carbon, 55% of the ...
Fuel treatments, including prescribed fire and mechanical thinning, can reduce fire severity with the potential to support biodiversity, habitat quality and vegetation diversity (Hessburg et al., 2021; Jones et al., 2022; Stephens et al., 2024). They have also been shown to decrease the overal...
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petiolata and that the effect was related to fire intensity; moderate intensity fires were effective whereas low intensity fires had virtually no effect. As many prescribed fires fall into this latter category, the efficacy of fire alone to control A. petiolata is questionable, but it may be ...
The most common injury types were spinal injuries, accounting for 20.9% of all reported injuries. Of these spinal injuries, the lumbar region was the most commonly injured reporting 83.1% of all spine injuries. Although the most commonly prescribed treatment modality was physical therapy (40.4%),...