Fire in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Preparing a Firewise Plant List for WUI Residents1
This extension publication is a guide to making a firewise plant list to assist local homeowners with firewise landscaping. It includes a step-by-step method for determining whether or not a particular plant species is appropriate for firewise landscaping. This publication is to be used by extension agents, nursery personnel, landscape architects, urban foresters, or other similar professionals in preparing local firewise plant lists in the wildland-urban interface (WUI). These lists can be combined with the Florida Cooperative Extension Service Circular 1445 "Fire in the Wildland-Urban Interface--Selecting and Maintaining Firewise Plants," published February 2004, for distribution to homeowners and other interested groups.
Circular 1453 is made available to you immediately as a downloadable PDF(Portable Document Format)(file size = 194KB). Included on nine pages are content-specific areas of definition of plant flammability, creating list, optional form, step-by-step method, flammability key, and sources of information.
Key words: Plant, firewise, flammability
Footnotes
This document is Circular 1453, one of the Fire in the Wildland-Urban Interface series of the School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. First published: July 2004. This factsheet is funded by the National Fire Plan through the Southern Center for Wildland-Urban Interface Research and Information, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service.
Anna L. Behm, Research Associate; Alan J. Long, Associate Professor; Martha C. Monroe, Associate Professor; and Cotton K. Randall, WUI Fire Project Coordinator, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University Florida. Wayne Zipperer, Research Scientist; L. Annie Hermansen-Baez, Technology Transfer Coordinator, Southern Center for Wildland-Urban Interface Research and Information, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service.
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