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Project FuSE: A study of fire behaviour on steep slopes in heath and shrub forests
- Title:
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Project FuSE: A study of fire behaviour on steep slopes in heath and shrub forests
- Date:
- July 2005
- Organisations
- BCRC
- Authors:
- Juanita Myers, Ian Knight, Jim Gould, Grant Pearce
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Location:
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New Zealand,
New Zealand
Overview
Presented at the 2005 Bushfire CRC/AFAC Conference In March 2005, the first set of carefully designed experimental fires for Project FuSE were conducted to investigate the effects of vegetation type and structure and also slope on fire behaviour in shrubland fuels, at Lake Taylor, New Zealand