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research article

Reduction of wildfire hazard: Removal of dead fuel reduced damage by wildfire in treated portion of experimental second growth ponderosa pine range

authors

H. H. Biswell, University of California, Berkeley.

publication information

California Agriculture 13(6):5-5. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v013n06p5. June 1959.

author affiliations

H. H. Biswell is Professor of Forestry, University of California, Berkeley.

abstract

Abstract Not Available – First paragraph follows:

Wildfires in areas treated by prescribed burning are relatively easy to control and are much less damaging than fires in similar untreated areas.

author notes

The above progress report is based on Research Project No. 1360, which is part of a project conducted by the University of California under contract with the California Department of Fish and Game under Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act Project 51-R.