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Forest Fire Smoke Management Policy: Can Prescribed Fire Reduce Subsequent Wildland Fire Emissions? Item Info
- Title:
- Forest Fire Smoke Management Policy: Can Prescribed Fire Reduce Subsequent Wildland Fire Emissions?
- Creator:
- Philip S. Cook; Jay O'Laughlin
- Date Created (ISO Standard):
- 2004
- Description:
- Policy Analysis Group Report - University of Idaho College of Natural Resources
- Abstract:
- Smoke is one short-term effect of forest fires. Smoke is regulated by a web of interrelated federal and state laws and regulations designed to protect human health and welfare. Many forest managers agree that using prescribed fire can have less adverse effects on air quality than allowing wildland fires to burn forests under uncontrolled conditions. A policy question arises: Are the laws and regulations that protect air quality flexible enough to allow for increased smoke from prescribed fires in the short-term in order to prevent worse air quality from unplanned wildland fires in the future? This report replies to that question.
- Subjects:
- forest fires wildfires fuel management wildfire management environmental policy
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Language:
- eng
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- "Forest Fire Smoke Management Policy: Can Prescribed Fire Reduce Subsequent Wildland Fire Emissions?", Institutional Repository Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/ir/items/ir0047.html
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