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WHAT IS PRESCRIBED FIRE? |
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Prescribed Fire refers to the controlled application of fire to wildland ecosytems under specified environmental conditions that help restore health to fire-adapted environments. By reducing hazardous fuel accumulations on the forest floor, encouraging the new growth of native vegetation, and maintaining the many plant and animal species whose habitats depend on periodic fire, prescribed burning helps reduce the catastrophic damage of wildfire on our lands and surrounding communities.
Prescribed fire is one of the most effective tools we have in preventing the outbreak and spread of wildfires. But because prescribed fire is fire, fire management experts must be extremely careful in planning and executing a prescribed fire.
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