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It’s here . . . and just in time. The 2009 Mechanized Equipment for Fire and Fuels Operations (also known as the Yellow Book) is the most comprehensive publication out there when it comes to fighting fires with mechanized equipment. If there’s a better on out there, I have yet to seen it. Valuable...
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So far (knock on wood) this year has been a relatively light one in terms of acres burned by forest fires — although the number of fires has been pretty high (51,584 fires from between January and July 14, and 2,425,934 acres burned). These figures are huge, but this time last year there had...
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The fire season has arrived. Prevention is always the best way to curtail current catastrophic wildfires — removing vegetation and creating healthy stands less prone to fire. But often that’s not an option and the blazes must be battled. Looking to the Logger Although loggers are called on to thin the forests, their specialized forestry...
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