- Author
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Muraro, S. J.
- Title
- Prescribed-Fire Impact in Cedar-Hemlock Logging Slash.
- Coporate
- Pacific Forest Research Center, Victoria, B.C.
- Report
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Publication No. 1295
1971
23 p.
- Keywords
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forestry
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ecology
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topography
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weather effect
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slash fuels
- Identifiers
- fuel moisture; slope and aspect; residual fuel complex; fire impact; initial fuel complex
- Abstract
- Prescribed fire has gained acceptance as a land-management tool for the cedar-hemlock type of Interior British Columbia. In addition to the usual problems associated with the use of fire, fuel complexes resulting from harvesting cedar-hemlock present problems peculiar to these stands. Silvical characteristics of these species are so divergent that awareness of the proportion of each species may be as important as the recognition of total fuel. Fahnestock made a detailed study of the differences and specifically mentioned the characteristics of oliar retention, aging, and branching and their effect on fire behavior. In this paper, the term "fire impact" refers to the immediately evident effect of fire on the ecosystem in terms of biophysical alteration or population reduction.