- Author
- Pagni, P. | Houck, L. | Peterson, T. | Pendleton, R. | Pearl, D. | Ng, N.
- Title
- Prescribed Burning. Final Report.
- Coporate
- California Univ., Berkeley
- Sponsor
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC
- Report
- UCB-TS-71-5, December 1971, 297 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
- controlled burning | combustion | forest fires | brush fires | fire suppression | ecology
- Identifiers
- ecological fire control
- Abstract
- The aim of this project was to quantitatively define prescribed burning so that range and forest managers can predict with certainty that: a) a prescribed burn will not become uncontrolled, b) fuel loading will be significantly reduced, and c) the net effect on local ecology will be favorable. This report is divided into three sections: data acquistiion, fire modeling, and ecological control. The data acquisition group measured flame characteristics, fuel properties and weather conditions prescribed furns. The fire modeling group developed an analytical model of flame spread under prescribed burn conditions. The ecological control group examined current prescribed burn criteria and compiled general guidelines deciding when, what, where, and how to burn.