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  1. Fire in the Southern Appalachians: understanding impacts, interventions, and future fire events

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    Author(s): Natasha A. James; Karen L. Abt; Gregory E. Frey; Xue Han; Jeffrey P. Prestemon
    Date: 2020
    Source: Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-249. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station.
    Publication Series: General Technical Report (GTR)
    Station: Southern Research Station
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.2737/SRS-GTR-249
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    SRS-2020-57    		Fire in the Southern Appalachians: Understanding Impacts, Interventions, and Future Fire Events

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    From October to December of 2016, a confluence of human and environmental factors led to an outbreak of wildfires across the Southern Appalachian Mountains. This report examines the time trends of fire in the Southern Appalachian region, including mitigation activities and forecasting acres burned. The introduction (ch. 1) of this report describes the 2016 Southern Appalachian fires on public lands and provides a brief description of the methodology used to understand economic impacts of fire. Chapters 2 and 3 examine how prescribed fire is used in this region. The final chapter (ch. 4) describes how we can expect area burned by both human- and lightning-caused fires to change given increases in global temperatures, fuels, and wildland fire management.

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    James, Natasha A.; Abt, Karen L.; Frey, Gregory E.; Han, Xue; Prestemon, Jeffrey P. 2020. Fire in the Southern Appalachians: understanding impacts, interventions, and future fire events. e-Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-249. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 34 p.

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    Economics, prescribed fire, Southern Appalachia, wildfire.

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