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A new fire management policy on Forest Service lands

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A new Forest Service policy, effective February 1978, allows some wildfires to burn under prescribed conditions, urges a multidisciplinary approach to fire control, and has applications to rural and urban situations.

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  1. Forest Service U.S. Department of Agriculture, USA

    James B. Davis

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Note: The author, formerly with the Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Berkeley, Calif., is now with the Forest Fire and Atmospheric Sciences Research Staff, Washington, D.C.

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Davis, J.B. A new fire management policy on Forest Service lands. Fire Technol 15, 43–50 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02101922

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