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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
This document provides standardized procedures specifically associated with the planning and implementation of prescribed fire. The 2014 Guide provides unified direction and guidance for prescribed fire planning and implementation for the agencies of the State of Colorado and furthermore may be incorporated into the operating procedures of county, local and private entities if they so choose.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
There is an overarching concern about the long term trade offs between air quality protection and efforts to mitigate unwanted wildfire. The emissions from wildfire may exceed air quality standards to such a degree that it may be prudent to allow greater levels of burning now to prevent unmitigated wildfires in the future. Prescribed fire implementation needs to regard to issues, such as health risk, public safety, and ecosystem damage if prescribed...
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Fire is a daunting human ecological challenge and a major subject in science and policy debates about global trends in land conversion, climate change, and human health. Persistent environmental orthodoxies reduce complex burning traditions to overly simplistic representations of environmental destruction, degradation, and loss while reinforcing existing social inequities involving smallholders. Fire Otherwise: Ethnobiology of Burning for a Changing...