- Author
- California University, Berkeley
- Title
- Prescribed Burning. Final Report.
- Coporate
- California Univ., Berkeley
- Sponsor
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC
- Report
- Report No. TS-71-5, December 1971, 295 p.
- Contract
- GRANT-GY-9112
- Keywords
- forestry | ecology | environmental effects | fire models
- Identifiers
- prescribed burning
- Abstract
- This report summarizes research on quantifying prescribed burning conducted during twelve weeks of summer of 1971 by fifteen students at the University of California at Berkeley and sponsored by the Student-Originated Studies program of the National Science Foundation. 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, as was our project, is divided into three sections: data acquisition, fire modeling, and ecological control.