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  • The Frescos' companions are strictly residential, by the way, and shouldn't be confused with municipal and non-profit goats employed to clear fire-prone brush by the likes of the cities of Los Angeles and Laguna Beach and the Palos Verdes Nature Preserve.

    Jonathan Handel: The Laurel Canyon Goats Are Leaving! Jonathan Handel 2011

  • The worry is that if spring snows and rains don't materialize, the grasses and other plants will become even more fire-prone.

    Colorado wildfires nearly contained 2011

  • Mr. BRIAN BRADEMEYER (Executive Director, Friends of the Norbeck): This whole beetle hysteria that dead trees are more fire-prone than green trees, it's all self-serving, logging institution building.

    Forest Near Mount Rushmore Suffers Beetle Attack 2010

  • The Frescos' companions are strictly residential, by the way, and shouldn't be confused with municipal and non-profit goats employed to clear fire-prone brush by the likes of the cities of Los Angeles and Laguna Beach and the Palos Verdes Nature Preserve.

    Jonathan Handel: The Laurel Canyon Goats Are Leaving! Jonathan Handel 2011

  • This made for a highly flammable fuel load because when fires are suppressed the density of foliage is raised, particularly the most fire-prone foliage.

    Christmas Trees and the Logic of Growth Mark Spitznagel 2011

  • Nationwide, the federal government treated 29 million fire-prone acres between 2001 and 2008, according to a study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder.

    Fourmile Fire: Mitigation Efforts In Areas West Of Boulder Under Review 2010

  • Nationwide, the federal government treated 29 million fire-prone acres between 2001 and 2008, according to a study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder.

    Fourmile Fire: Mitigation Efforts In Areas West Of Boulder Under Review 2010

  • •Kuchler potential natural vegetation is northern cordgrass prairie; it is distinct from the northeastern oak-pine forest of xeric, fire-prone uplands in the Outer Coastal Plain of Ecoregion 84b, and the Appalachian oak forest of mesic uplands in the Inner Coastal Plain (84d).

    Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA) 2009

  • Northeastern oak-pine forest is common on the sandy, xeric, fire-prone uplands of the Outer Coastal Plain, whereas Appalachian oak forest once dominated the less sandy, more fertile soils of the Inner Coastal Plain.

    Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA) 2009

  • Pitch pine-scarlet oak forests are well suited to sites with thin, dry, infertile, and silica-rich soil; pitch pine is better adapted than scarlet oak to ridgetops that are exposed to winter snow and ice storms, and are fire-prone during the summer.

    Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA) 2009

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