USGS Home
Contact USGS
Search USGS

30. Brown, A. A., and K P. Davis. 1973. Forest fire: control and use, second ed. 
         McGraw Hill Book Co., New York. 686 pp.

This standard teaching tool for undergraduate and graduate fire management courses provides an overview of fire science and can serve as a guide to developing fire plans and training fire personnel. Examples are drawn largely from the United States, but some from Canada and Australia are also included. The effect of fire on wetlands is not addressed except indirectly as it applies to watershed management. It is emphasized, however, that bottomland hardwoods, swamps, and bogs do burn and often are fire-adapted communities. [K-L-S]