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Download or read book Woody Fuel and Duff Consumption by Prescribed Fire in Northern Idaho Mixed Conifer Logging Slash Classic Reprint written by Elizabeth D. Reinhardt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Woody Fuel and Duff Consumption by Prescribed Fire in Northern Idaho Mixed Conifer Logging Slash Because of these considerations, managers at tempt to remove specified amounts of fuel and also retain desired amounts of residual organic material. Consumption of fuels and retention of organic material can be described in several ways. Duff consumption is often described as depth reduction, percentage depth reduction, and percentage mineral soil exposure. For evaluating smoke emissions and nutrient capital, depth reduction is the appropriate expression because it describes actual amounts and can be converted to weight if duff bulk density is known. Percentage duff reduction is commonly used to describe fire prescription targets. It must be applied to preburn depth or loading to estimate actual amounts of duff removed or retained. Per centage mineral soil exposure relates to regenera tion potential, seedbed quality, and vulnerability to erosion. Objectives and constraints of prescribed fire can often be expressed as desired or acceptable levels of percentage mineral soil exposure. Consumption of woody fuel is often described as percentage of preburn fuel quantities consumed, especially for evaluating prescribed fire effects and designing fire prescriptions. It may be pre dicted initially as average diameter reduction of woody pieces and then converted to percentage volume reduction or fuel loading reduction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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