firebreaking

Generally, the forest, owing to the flatness of the country, lends itself to ideal subdivision into compartments and cheap firebreaking by horse-drawn graders.

1928, The Australian Forestry Journal - Volumes 11-14, page 8

The meat goats are grazed in organic olive orchards, and are also used in three counties for fuel load reduction in ponderosa pine plantations, firebreaking in forests and land cleaning.

1997, Sustainable Agriculture - Volumes 9-12, page 62

Below the line spin involves setting and driving the news agenda, but also 'firebreaking' (deliberately constructing a story to divert journalists away from an embarrassing story, e.g., Campbell's leak to the Sunday Times that MI6 was investigating Chris Patten when the story of Robin Cook's affair broke) or 'stoking the fire' (the precise opposite of firebreaking by gathering and providing information to sustain a story which an opponent is finding embarrassing, e.g. Labour spin doctors' efforts to fuel the story of rifts between John Major and the anti-Europeans in the Conservative Party) or 'undermining a personality' (e.g. the off-the-record description of Gordon Brown as 'psychologically flawed', Harriet Harman as 'incapable of joined-up thinking', while a 'senior government aide' suggested that Mo Mowlam's illness had left her 'without the intellectual rigour for her job' with another anonymous 'adviser' claiming to be 'dismayed at her erratic behaviour'.

2005, Bob Franklin, Key Concepts in Journalism Studies, →ISBN

Gaber (2000, p. 512) has explored and listed distinct techniques deployed by communications managers to cajole journalists and set the agenda, ranging from efforts to plant a story, to activities of' 'firebreaking' aiming to divert the media's attention from a potentially negative story.

2014, Christian Schnee, Political Reputation Management: The Strategy Myth, →ISBN

Fire frequency lessened at the time of settlement because of the firebreaking effect of roads and fields, and the grubs grew into multiple-stemmed trees and shaded out the heliophious prairie herbs;

1966, John H. McAndrews, Postglacial History of Prairie, Savanna, and Forest in Northwestern Minnesota

For example, fire suppression on wildlands, and the firebreaking qualities of roads and other human developments have altered natural fire regimes over entire regions.

1993, Bill N. McKnight, Biological pollution