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The craft's raked bow made beaching comparatively easy, and the craft came off without difficulty when unloaded, though it could snag on rocks or poor ground as any other small boat would.
A relative measure of fire-control difficulty; doubling the index means twice the effort may be needed to control the fire. burn out Setting fire inside a control line to consume fuel between the edge of the fire and the control line. burning period The part of each 24-hour period when fires spread most rapidly, typically from 10:00 AM to sundown.
She is designed to hold machinery anywhere along the hull length, and to withstand the stresses of pulling on snags. Rows of steel I-beams support its superstructure, including the forward-mounted boom, mounted on an A-frame. The frame is designed to support different types of equipment, including bucket dredges as well as the snag boom.
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Plant species richness of snag forests can be much higher than in unburned forests. [3] Bird and small mammal communities that utilize complex early seral forests forage on the abundant insects and increased abundance of seeds in the post-fire flora. [9] [11] These species, in turn, support an increase in raptors. [12]
A dead standing tree – known as a snag – provides many of the same functions as coarse woody debris. The minimum size required for woody debris to be defined as "coarse" varies by author, ranging from 2.5–20 cm (1–8 in) in diameter.