Burned Area Emergency Response Treatments Catalog (BAERCAT)

<p>The Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) catalog presents treatments instructions monitoring tools and references that BAER assessment and implementation teams use to identify appropriate treatments in a BAER emergency. The target audience for this publication is any Federal land management agency BAER assessment and implementation team. The publication is written as instructions to the team. However other readers with an interest in emergency rehabilitation of fire areas will benefit from this information.<br><br>BAER treatments for land channels roads/trails and protection and safety are discussed in the catalog. Readers will learn the primary treatment use the purpose and objective of the treatment suitable locations for treatment implementation and cost factors. Available treatment effectiveness information is provided to share known benefits and limitations of the treatments although such information may be limited or anecdotal. BAER teams should validate specific treatment effectiveness in the affected area prior to recommending its use.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>