crown fire

Stand-replacing crown fires are very important to this biome, occurring as frequently as every 50-100 years in some parts.

What is the difference between a surface forest fire and a crown fire?

The idea is to increase the distance between trees to prevent the so-called "crown fires," which are virtually impossible for firefighters to put out.

Once started, they are very difficult to control since wind plays an important role in crown fires.

This was definitely one lulu of a crown fire.

"As a general rule, palace gossip spreads faster than a crown fire in a pinewood," he said.

How resilient are southwestern ponderosa pine forests after crown fires?

He witnessed the crown fire sweeping the Earth before the signal gave out.

It started with a lighting strike which caused a crown fire.

They can set experimental crown fires to study their effects, as was done recently in"journal" Canada (Figure 1).