Cover Type and Fire Control in the National Forests of Northern California (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The amount and kind of fuel present in the woodland type varies greatly. In the drier situations the oaks, the principal species, occur as isolated trees, with Widespreading crowns. This form of woodland type merges with the grassland type throughout its range; the ground is carpeted With grasses and weeds In profusion, and these form the principal fuel. Fires, as in the grassland type, spread With great rapidity over the surface, though rarely running up to the tree crowns. Where precipitation is heavier, the woodland type forms a close canopy of many hardwood species and the ground is heavily covered with a layer of dried and decayed leaves, and lacks any understory of grasses and weeds. Fires in the denser stands eat their way slowly through this semicompacted mass of organic material, flaring up occasionally through the trees under increased wind velocity.

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