SUMMARY TERRA-1 TERRA-2 TERRA-3 TERRA-4 TERRA-5 SOCIO-1 SOCIO-2 SOCIO-3 SOCIO-4 SOCIO-5 SOCIO-6 SOCIO-7 TIMBR-1 TIMBR-2 TIMBR-3 HLTH-1 HLTH-2 HLTH-3 AQUA-1 AQUA-2 AQUA-3 AQUA-4 AQUA-5 HISTORY FIRE PDF (428K)

BACKGROUND PAPER FIRE: Fire in Southern Forest Landscapes

1 Fire as a Landscape Process

2 Fire Regimes and Fire Types

2.1 Fire Regimes

2.2 Fire Types

3 Fire History of the South

3.1 Use of Fire by Native Americans

3.2 Use of Fire by Early European Settlers

3.3 Fire Following Exploitive Logging

3.4 An Era of Fire Suppression

3.5 The Era of Fire Management

4 Fire Regimes of Southern Forests

4.1 Coastal Plain Region

4.2 Piedmont Region

4.3 Mountains and Interior Highlands Regions

5 Prescribed Fire

5.1 Types of Prescribed Fires

5.2 Effects of Prescribed Burning

6 Smoke Management

6.1 Problem smoke

6.2 Constituents of Smoke

6.3 Smoke Management

7 Restoring Fire into Southern Ecosystems

8 Literature Cited

9 Tables and Figures

Table 1--Occurrence and frequency of presettlement fire regime types by SAF cover types

Table 2--Prescribed burning regimes to improve wildlife habitat