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The present study undertook a hierarchical analysis of the variability within and among some individual fire events in the boreal ecozones of canada and alaska. Fire effects and postburn vegetation development in the. So why is the forest service spending more than ever on fire suppression. A new permanent working group has been approved for this topic. Many ecosystems, particularly prairie, savanna, chaparral and coniferous forests, have evolved with fire as an. When stratified by ecozone, differences in the spatial and temporal distribution of wildfires were observed in the canadian large fire data base that reflect climatic, terrain and landuse differences across the. The major benefit of patch burning is the additional accumulation of fine fuel, which is readily achieved without any deferment of grazing before or after burning figure 12.
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