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Harold H. Biswell
James Agee

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Prescribed Burning in California Wildlands Vegetation Management

Prescribed Burning in California Wildlands Vegetation Management

Harold H. Biswell

With a New Foreword by James Agee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS BERKELEY

LOS ANGELES

LONDON

University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England First Paperback Printing 1999 by The Regents of the University of California Foreword to Paperback Edition © 1999 by James Agee © 1989

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Biswell, Harold H. (Harold Hubert) Prescribed burning in California wildlands vegetation management / Harold H. Biswell. p. cm. Includes bibliographies and index. ISBN 21945-7 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1 . Prescribed burning—California. 2. Wilderness areas—California—Management. 3. Wildfires—California. 4. Fire ecology—California. I. Title. II. Title: Wildlands vegetation management. S608.B57

1989

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The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, A N S I Z39.48-1984. ©

Contents

Foreword to the Paperback Edition by James Agee

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Foreword to the Original Edition by Zev Naveh

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Acknowledgments

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Introduction

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The author's background Vegetation Literature on prescribed burning

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Fundamentals of Fire Behavior

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Fire behavior parameters

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Factors that affect fire behavior

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Fires Set by Lightning and by Indians

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Lightning-set fires

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Indian-set fires Dating of fires Plant adaptations to fire

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Vegetation's dependence on fire

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Wildfires

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