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| Publication Type:
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| Author(s): | Gross, Patrick |
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| Author Affiliation: | Director, Southwest Region, United States Golf Association Green Section |
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| Title: | Golf courses on the fire line: Golf courses and large turf areas serve a valuable role as firebreaks |
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| Source: | USGA Green Section Record. Vol. 47, No. 6, November/December 2009, p. 13-16. |
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| Publishing Information: | Far Hills, NJ: United States Golf Association, Green Section |
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| # of Pages: | 4 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Fires; Turf values; Water use; Wildfires
USGA Green Section Keywords: Golf course management and budgets: Maintenance philosophy; Irrigation
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| Abstract/Contents: | Suggests that a potential benefit of turf is "the fact that golf courses and large turf areas serve a valuable role as firebreaks." Explains the potential benefits, including that "healthy turf is less likely to burn due to the high water content within the plant tissue"; "the low, prostrate growth habit of maintained turf limits the amount of fuel available to sustain a fire"; and "water hazards on golf courses are sometimes used as a source of water to fight fires." |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 10 |
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| See Also: | Other items relating to: What Good is Turf? |
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| Note: | Pictures, color |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Gross, P. 2009. Golf courses on the fire line: Golf courses and large turf areas serve a valuable role as firebreaks. USGA Green Sec. Rec. 47(6):p. 13-16. |
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