Sentence examples for benefits of fire from inspiring English sources

Our limited understanding of the short and long-term effects of fire on fish contributes to considerable uncertainty in assessments of the risks and benefits of fire management alternatives.

Thus even as the economic, social and cultural realities of U.S. civic life have changed over the course of the 20th and early 21st centuries – and even as knowledge of the ecological benefits of fire to ecosystem health has developed over time – the message of Smokey Bear has remained remarkably consistent, communicating an official imperative to prevent anthropogenic ignition.

The ecological benefits of fire are often overridden by the economic and safety benefits of protecting structures and human life.

Comte et al. (2012), working in the Brazilian Amazon, showed that mulching rather than burning resulted in higher topsoil water holding capacity and total N. Hypothesized additional benefits of fire exclusion include the avoidance of negative impacts of burning on soil biota, a faster fallow and ecosystem carbon stock recovery, and a reduced wildfire risk.

In cross-examination on Friday, Stephen Alexander, a lawyer for the former directors Roy E. Disney and Stanley P. Gold, tried to get Mr. Donohue, whose expertise is termination law, to admit that he had failed to balance the benefits of firing for cause against the possibility of a lawsuit for breach of contract.

A study has been made of the benefit of fire compartmentation in chemical warehouses and its cost-effectiveness in relation to other fire protection measures.

Frequent fire-return intervals (<3-yr) have been suggested to optimize the benefits of prescribed fire in many fire-dominated ecosystems.

They suggested that the potential carbon benefits of managing fire regimes in the savannas are greater than in temperate forests.

That is, while fire suppression did result in a net increase in the abundance of subalpine fir under all climate scenarios, the benefits of less fire were tempered by climate change.

Chad Hanson of the Earth Island Institute posted a long piece focused on the ecological normalcy and benefits of big fires in the Sierras, "The Ecological Importance of California's Rim Fire".

Firefighters were hesitant, too, not knowing the benefits of controlled fires and lacking experience with them.