Impediments to prescribed fire across agency, landscape and manager: an example from northern California
Impediments to prescribed fire across agency, landscape and manager: an example from northern California
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跨机构、景观和管理者的规定火灾的障碍：来自北加州的一个例子
DOI：
10.1071/wf11017
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
J. Varner
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作者：
Lenya Quinn;J. Varner
虽然人们普遍认识到使用处方火种的必要性，但它的使用仍然受到一系列操作和社会限制。研究的重点是确定这些制约因素，然而过去的努力不成比例地集中在单一机构和地理区域。我们通过调查加利福尼亚州北部的各种组织(包括六个州和联邦机构以及几个部落、非政府组织和木材公司)来检查对处方火的限制，加利福尼亚州是美国西部火灾多发的地区。在整个地区，每年规定的火灾只覆盖了完成土地管理目标所需面积的38%，66%的管理人员对规定的火灾活动水平表示不满。排在最高位的障碍是狭窄的燃烧窗口、法规、缺乏足够的人员和环境法律。各实体之间的障碍评级不同，私营部门比公共部门更关注法律和社会障碍，州和私营部门比联邦部门更关注经济障碍。与美国东南部相比，那里已经进行了类似的研究，指出了对规定的火灾活动的重要地区限制。这些发现表明，需要进一步研究跨越地理和所有权边界的研究，因为规定的火灾障碍可能会因环境而异。
Though the need for prescribed fire is widely recognised, its use remains subject to a range of operational and social constraints. Research has focussed on identifying these constraints, yet past efforts have focussed disproportionately on single agencies and geographic regions. We examined constraints on prescribed fire by surveying a wide variety of organisations (including six state and federal agencies and several tribes, non-governmental organisations and timber companies) in northern California, a fire-prone region of the western United States. Across the region, prescribed burning annually covered only 38% of the area needed to fulfil land-management objectives, and 66% of managers indicated dissatisfaction with levels of prescribed fire activity. The highest-ranked impediments were narrow burn window, regulations, lack of adequate personnel and environmental laws. Impediment ratings differed among entities, with legal and social impediments of greater concern in the private sector than in the public, and economic impediments of greater concern in the state and private sectors than in the federal. Comparisons with the south-eastern United States, where similar research has taken place, point to important regional constraints on prescribed fire activity. These findings suggest further need for research spanning geographic and ownership boundaries, as prescribed fire impediments can vary by context.