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Joint Fire Science Program
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Wilderness Fire
Topic(s):
Fuels
Fuel Treatments & Effects
Prescribed Fire-use treatments
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NRFSN number: 23579
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FRAMES RCS number: 14834
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The promise of wildland fire use (WFU) is that, over time, the fires will play a more natural role, creating a jigsaw-puzzle pattern of burned and regrowing patches over a landscape and gradually moving it closer to the stand structure and species composition that prevailed before fire exclusion became the policy.

Citation

Joint Fire Science Program, 2009, Wildland Fire use: Managing for a Fire-Smart Landscape, Fire Science Digest Issue 4, 12p.