"The governor's view is that prescribed burns have a place," Mr. Duffy said.
Not everyone agrees that prescribed fire is the way to maintain the Long Island pine barrens.
"All they said was, it was the law of Shariah that prescribed it, that God willed it," the official recalled.
Mr. Kurtz said that prescribed burning -- controlled fires set by professionals -- helps to prevent wildfires by clearing out undergrowth and reducing the buildup of natural fuel.
This more nuanced way of marketing to girls and women contrasts with ads a generation ago that prescribed a woman's role in society as that of a homemaker.
As recently as 2003 he voted against the repeal of Section 28, a piece of legislation that prescribed what schools could teach about homosexuality.
Courtly love, French amour courtois, in the later Middle Ages, a highly conventionalized code that prescribed the behaviour of ladies and their lovers.
We hypothesized that prescribed burning and grazing will interact, affecting both the above-ground biomass and vegetation height.
We conducted a quality improvement project to explore the hypothesis that prescribed and delivered dialysate sodium concentrations may differ significantly.
Prior stand-scale studies suggest that prescribed burning and harvesting could be effective for restoring pine-oak woodlands.
The key finding of our study was that prescribed burning did not decrease the abundance and diversity of arthropod taxa.
