Prescribed Burning in California Wildlands Vegetation Management |
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Author:
| Biswell, Harold |
Foreword by:
| Agee, James K. |
ISBN: | 978-0-520-21945-8 |
Publication Date: | Aug 1999 |
Publisher: | University of California Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $28.95 |
Book Description:
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Harold Biswell's decades of research and field experience were a major factor in developing policies of controlled or prescribed burning, which mimics or reintroduces the natural fire cycle. This comprehensive study introduces the principles and practices of prescribed burning, which apply far beyond California, within a historical and ecological perspective. Available for the first time in paperback, with a new foreword by James Agee, this book places Biswell's study_and his...
More DescriptionHarold Biswell's decades of research and field experience were a major factor in developing policies of controlled or prescribed burning, which mimics or reintroduces the natural fire cycle. This comprehensive study introduces the principles and practices of prescribed burning, which apply far beyond California, within a historical and ecological perspective. Available for the first time in paperback, with a new foreword by James Agee, this book places Biswell's study_and his legacy_in the context of recent developments in the field.