The first efforts to introduce and prescribed burning in Greece began in the 1970s, when members of the forest scientific community and the forest service applied prescribed burning experimentally. Although researchers made some steps.to document theuse of fire and study its impacts before introducing prescribed burning as a tool to prevent forestfires, those sporadic attempts did not tie bonds with the forest and fire management community, and the endeavour was soon abandoned mainly due to lack of constant funding, legal support, logistics, continuous scientific guidance and clear objectives.
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