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Pine Rocklands Born From Fire.
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| Title: | Pine Rocklands Born From Fire. |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Pamphlet | |
| Issuance: | monographic | |
| Publisher: | Miami-Dade County (Fla.). Park and Recreation Department | |
| Physical Form: | electronic resource | |
| Extent: | 10 pages, illustrations, maps,22 cm | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | Prior to settlement, natural lighting-caused fires raced across Florida, shaping its wilderness landscape. Fire had a powerful influence in the evolution of plant and animal diversity in Florida. As Florida's wildland areas have diminished due to development, the role of fire in the management of preservation areas has become an important issue. To help maintain this rich diversity of life and restore the ecological health of habitats that are adapted to fire, resource managers rely on "prescribed burning". Prescribed burning is fire that is purposely set under specific weather conditions to reduce the natural buildup of vegetation and deadwood in a fire-adapted habitat. Miami-Dade County's pine forests, called "pine rocklands", are an example of a fire-dependent habitat that must now be maintained by prescribed burning. | |
| Identifier: | FI06050105 (IID), 1029868 (digitool), fiu:17184 (fedora), AAC0109QF | |
| Note(s): | Electronic reproduction. [Florida] : State University System of Florida, PALMM Project, 2006. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Electronic version created 2006, State University System of Florida. | |
| Subject(s): |
Forest conservation -- Florida -- Miami-Dade County Slash pine -- Florida -- Miami-Dade County |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI06050105.pdf | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI06050105.jpg | |
| Use and Reproduction: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ | |
| Host Institution: | FIU |
