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The notion of fire as a tool had somewhat evolved by the late 1970s as the National Park Service authorized and administered controlled burns. [67] Following prescribed fire reintroduction, the Yellowstone fires of 1988 occurred, which significantly politicized fire management. The ensuing media coverage was a spectacle that was vulnerable to ...
While prescribed burns are a critical tool in wildfire prevention, warming climate conditions are restricting the window of time in which they can be safely deployed, a new study has found.
The Healthy Forests Initiative (HFI), officially the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (Pub. L. 108–148 (text)), is a law proposed by President George W. Bush following the forest fires of 2002 which was devastatingly widespread.
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Wildfire prevention programs around the world may employ techniques such as wildland fire use (WFU) and prescribed or controlled burns. [120] [121] Wildland fire use refers to any fire of natural causes that is monitored but allowed to burn. Controlled burns are fires ignited by government agencies under less dangerous weather conditions. [122]
Thinning of smaller trees is widely embraced as a tool for reducing fuel loads and curbing extreme fire, especially when followed by prescribed fires.
Prescribed Burn in Oak Savannah in Iowa. Restoration ecology is the name given to an attempt to reverse or mitigate some of the changes that humans have caused to an ecosystem. Controlled burning is one tool that is currently receiving considerable attention as a means of restoration and management. Applying fire to an ecosystem may create ...