Prescribed burning definition

Prescribed burning means the planned application of fire to vegetation on lands selected in advance of such application, where any of the purposes of the burning are specified in the definition of agricultural burning as set forth in Health and Safety Code Section 39011.
Prescribed burning means open burning under such conditions that the fire is confined to a predetermined area.
Prescribed burning means the controlled application of fire to wildland fuels that are in either a natural or modified state, under certain burn and smoke management prescription conditions that have been specified by the land manager in charge of or assisting the burn, to attain planned resource management objectives. Prescribed burning does not include a fire set or permitted by a public officer to provide instruction in fire fighting methods, or construction or residential burning.

Examples of Prescribed burning in a sentence

  • Prescribed burning costs are not eligible for reimbursement under the WFPP.

  • After an introduction, there are 15 further chapters: Temperature and heat effects; Soil and water properties; Wildlife; Grasslands; Semidesert grass-shrub; Sagebrush-grass; Chaparral and oakbrush; Pinyon-juniper; Ponderosa pine; Douglas-fir and associated communities; Spruce-fir; Red and white pine; Coastal redwood and giant sequoia; Southeastern forests; and Prescribed burning.

  • Prescribed burning is also used for slash control and to reduce fuel concentrations in established stands for fire prevention.

  • Ignition patterns are used that are designed to keep fire from intruding into RMZs. Prescribed burning is used to reduce slash concentrations or to reduce vegetative levels or control species composition.

  • Loss of habitat resulting from herbicide use Loss of habitat resulting from mowing Prescribed burning to promote suitable habitat Management through use of prescribed fire to sustain or enhance plant diversity.


More Definitions of Prescribed burning

Prescribed burning means the use of fire ignited as a planned management activity on forestland to meet specific objectives involving the reduction or removal of forest fuels. Prescribed burning does not include impromptu fires ignited for purposes such as warming fires, burn-out or backfire operations used in wildfire suppression, or lightning ignited “wildland fire use” as practiced by federal land management agencies.
Prescribed burning means the planned and controlled burning of plant material in order to minimize the risk of catastrophic wildfire or to meet specific land management objectives.
Prescribed burning means the open burning of plant life under such conditions that the fire is confined to a predetermined area and accomplishes the environmentally beneficial objectives of prevention and control of wildfires.
Prescribed burning or “Prescribed Fire” means the application of fire, in accordance with a written prescription for vegetative fuels, under specified environmental conditions while following appropriate precautionary measures that ensure public safety and that is confined to a predetermined area to accomplish public safety or land management objectives. The term excludes controlled agricultural burns and controlled ditch burns.
Prescribed burning means open burning of undisturbed vegetation for the specific purpose of conservation practices, wildlife habitat management, or plant, pest or disease control under such conditions that the fire is confined to a predetermined area.
Prescribed burning means the controlled application of fire to existing vegetative fuels under specified environmental conditions and following appropriate precautionary measures, which causes the fire to be confined to a predetermined area and accomplishes one or more planned land management objectives as specified in the Georgia Prescribed Burning Act (Georgia Code Title 12. Conservation and Natural Resources §12-6-146) or to mitigate catastrophic wildfires.
Prescribed burning means the application of fire by broadcast burning for vegetative fuels under specified environmental conditions, while following appropriate measures to guard against the spread of fire beyond the predetermined area to accomplish the planned fire or land management objectives.