Fire History and Fire Records for Everglades National Park 1948-1979
Taylor DL. 1981. Fire History and Fire Records for Everglades National Park 1948-1979. SFRC T-619. South Florida Natural Resources Center. Homestead, Florida
Fire records are necessary to document fire frequency, seasonal occurrence, size, cause, location, conditions, under which habitat types burn, manpower requirements, management techniques, and other factors. Traditional fire history information (Arno and Sneck, 1977) is less available for South Florida than for other areas within the U.S. because burned areas revegetate rapidly, and fire scarred trees either do not have annual rings or else the rings are difficult to interpret (Taylor, in press). Good fire records are extremely important as they represent almost the only valid data on fire history. Even so, Robertson (1953) states south Florida is perhaps unique in that it has had more fires and kept less account of them than any other section of the country.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Taylor, Dale
- Date of Issue
- 1981-04
- Publisher
- South Florida Natural Resources Center
- Units
- EVER
- Keywords
- everglades, FIRE, SFNRCTRS