Fuel Moisture and Sustained Flaming in Masticated Fuelbeds

Mastication is a fuel management technique that disrupts the vertical continuity of forest fuels by mechanical shredding of trees and understory vegetation into a highly-compacted surface fuelbed. The particle size distributions, bulk density and arrangements differ from natural and slash fuel types...

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Main Author: Schiks, Thomas John
Other Authors: Wotton, Brian Michael
Language:en_ca
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/65604