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Link Florida's Outdoor Burning and Forest Fire Laws
Details basic outdoor burning laws to help prevent forest fire
Link A Guide for Prescribed Fire in Southern Forests
This guide provides basic information needed to help you become technically proficient in the proper use of prescribed fire. A glossary toward the end of this ...
Link Benefits of Prescribed Burning
Fire has been a frequent visitor to Florida's forests for thousands of years. During spring and fall dry seasons, and even during periods of summer rain, fires ...
Link Clemson Researchers Find Prescribed Fire Regenerates Oak Forests
Fire is being prescribed by Clemson University forestry researchers to regenerate oak forests. Regenerating oaks following timber harvests is a major challenge ...
Link Designing a Prescribed Fire Demonstration Area
This site focuses on how to design a prescribed fire demonstration and the benefits that come from prescribed burning.
Link Developing Land in Florida with Fire in Mind
Because fire is an essential ingredient in maintaining Florida's natural landscapes, it is critical to design developments that enable prescribed burning of ...
Link Effects of Fire on Florida's Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat
This document addresses concerns regarding the use of prescribed fire to manage wildlife habitat in Florida
Link Minimizing Wildfire Risk - A forest landowner's guide
A management guide for landowners who wish to assess and reduce the risk of wildfire.
Link National Interagency Fire Center
All agencies involved in fire control.
Link Need to Burn Debris?
Throughout history, fire has been both a servant and an enemy of man. When under man’s control it provides light and heat, cooks food, and eliminates unwanted ...
Link Prescribed Burning
Prescribed burning brochure from the Georgia Forestry Commission.
Link Prescribed Burning Assistance
WHY Do Good Forest Managers Burn the Woods?
Link Prescribed Burning for Timber and Wildlife
This publication examines how various species benefit from prescribed burning.
Link Prescribed Burning Regulations in Florida
Prescribed burning is a precise tool for vegetation management that requires permits, proper training, care, caution and control. Appropriate precautionary ...
Link Prescribed Fire
This site is designed to provide various links on prescribed burning, fire, and forest protection.
Link Risk Assessment for Burned Timber: Guidelines for Landowners
General Guidelines for Risk Assessment
Link Smoke Management Guidelines
The South Carolina Smoke Management Guidelines provide for minimizing the impact of smoke from vegetative debris burning operations.``To do this, the ...
Link South Carolina Forestry Commission Wildfire in S.C.
A comprehensive site on wildfires with topics including causes, wildland firefighting, safety, fire protection laws, and prevention.
Link Wildfire Facts
South Carolina Forestry Commission ``wildfire facts
Link Wildfire Risk Assessment Guide for Homeowners in the Southern United States
Martha Monroe, faculty member; Ludie Ehlers and Anna Behm, graduate students,``in the School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, ...
Link Arson Alert Association
brochure for the AAA, a nonprofit group dedicated to ending wildland arson, encouraging the public to turn over arsonists to the police
Link Be Firewise After the Storm
Brochure warning against and aimed at preventing fire danger after a hurricane
Link Evacuation Plan is More Than You May Think
suggested evacuation plans (due to fire, storm, etc) for families living in wooded areas
Link Ecological and Economic Consequences of the 1998 Florida Wildfires
The objective of this project was to assess the economic effects of catastrophic forest wildfires in Florida and various causal factors contributing to these ...
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