Prescribed fire in longleaf pine ecosystems: fire managers’ perspectives on priorities, constraints, and future prospects

Fire Ecology

Table 5 Fire managers’ perceptions of future constraints to prescribed burning in longleaf pine ecosystems, grouped in order of importance

Constraint^a	Tukey-Kramer grouping for constraint least squares means (a = 0.05)
Constraint^a	Responses^b	Estimate	Grouping
AirQuality	81.2%	1.4057		A
WUI	78.3%	1.2252		A
Risk	58.0%	0.2586		B
PublicConcern	46.9%	−0.1935	C	B
Weather	44.9%	−0.2525	C	B
Resources	40.1%	−0.4523	C	D
Legal	26.1%	−1.0974	E	D
FuelLoad	25.6%	−1.1485	E
Incentives	11.6%	−2.0922		F
Partners	2.4%	−3.7626		F

^aSee Table 2 for constraint abbreviations
^bPercentage of fire managers who selected the stated constraint as one of the top five constraints on the availability of prescribed burning opportunities over the next 30 years (N=206)