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Acceptable Fire Risk
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Criteria Pollutants
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Crown Scorch Height
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Crowning Potential
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Debris Burning Fire
Designated Area
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Dormant Season Burning
Draped Fuels
Drift Smoke
Duff
Ecosystem Sustainability
Ecosystem
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Edge
Emission Factor (EFp)
Emission Rate
Emission Reduction
Emission
Episode (Pollution)
Fine Fuels
Fire Benefits
Fire Climax
Fire Dependent
Fire Ecology
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Fire Effects
Fire Environment
Fire Frequency
Fire Information Retrieval and Evaluation System (FIRES)
Fire Interval
Fire Management Area
Fire Management Improvements
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Fire Regime Current Condition Class
Fire Regime Groups
Fire Regime
Fire Resistant Tree
Fire Scar Analysis
Fire Scar
Fire Sensitive Tree
Fire Severity
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Firelamp (Fire and Land Management Planning)
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Fly Ash
Forb
Forest Planning Language and Simulator (FORPLAN)
Forest Residue
Fuel Arrangement
Fuel Bed Depth
Fuel Bed
Fuel Characteristics
Fuel Condition
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Fuel Management
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Fuel Reduction
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Fuel
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Height
Herb
Hidden Fire Scar
Holding Actions
Humus
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Ignition Pattern
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Inversion
Island
Land Use Plan
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Legitimate Smoke
Litter
Logging Debris
Long-Range Spotting
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Lopping
Management Action Points
Mass Fire
Master Fire Chronology
Maximum Manageable Area (MMA)
Mean Fire Return Interval
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Mosaic
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Native Species
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Non-attainment Area
Objective
Open Burning
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Set
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Slash
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Visual Resource Management (VRM)
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