Fire in eastern oak forests
Author : Matthew Dickinson
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Page : 316 pages
File Size : 14,60 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Forest fires
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Author : Matthew Dickinson
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 14,60 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Forest fires
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Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 20,37 MB
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0816539758
America is not simply a federation of states but a confederation of regions. Some have always held national attention, some just for a time. Slopovers examines three regions that once dominated the national narrative and may now be returning to prominence. The Mid-American oak woodlands were the scene of vigorous settlement in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and thus the scene of changing fire practices. The debate over the origin of the prairies—by climate or fire—foreshadowed the more recent debate about fire in oak and hickory hardwoods. In both cases, today’s thinking points to the critical role of fire. The Pacific Northwest was the great pivot between laissez-faire logging and state-sponsored conservation and the fires that would accompany each. Then fire faded as an environmental issue. But it has returned over the past decade like an avenging angel, forcing the region to again consider the defining dialectic between axe and flame. And Alaska—Alaska is different, as everyone says. It came late to wildland fire protection, then managed an extraordinary transfiguration into the most successful American region to restore something like the historic fire regime. But Alaska is also a petrostate, and climate change may be making it the vanguard of what the Anthropocene will mean for American fire overall. Slopovers collates surveys of these three regions into the national narrative. With a unique mixture of journalism, history, and literary imagination, renowned fire expert Stephen J. Pyne shows how culture and nature, fire from nature and fire from people, interact to shape our world with three case studies in public policy and the challenging questions they pose about the future we will share with fire.
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Page : 320 pages
File Size : 32,29 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic journals
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 39,23 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Fire ecology
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Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,99 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biotic communities
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Author : Robert E. Keane
Publisher :
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 10,42 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Coarse woody debris
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Fire managers need better estimates of fuel loading so they can more accurately predict the potential fire behavior and effects of alternative fuel and ecosystem restoration treatments. This report presents a new fuel sampling method, called the photoload sampling technique, to quickly and accurately estimate loadings for six common surface fuel components (1 hr, 10 hr, 100 hr, and 1000 hr downed dead woody, shrub, and herbaceous fuels). This technique involves visually comparing fuel conditions in the field with photoload sequences to estimate fuel loadings. Photoload sequences are a series of downward-looking and close-up oblique photographs depicting a sequence of graduated fuel loadings of synthetic fuelbeds for each of the six fuel components. This report contains a set of photoload sequences that describe the range of fuel component loadings for common forest conditions in the northern Rocky Mountains of Montana, USA to estimate fuel loading in the field. A companion publication (RMRS-RP-61CD) details the methods used to create the photoload sequences and presents a comprehensive evaluation of the technique.
Author : Cathryn Greenberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 2011-08-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9400716206
This edited volume addresses a rising concern among natural resource scientists and management professionals about decline of the many plant and animal species associated with early-successional habitats, especially within the Central Hardwood Region of the USA. These open habitats, with herbaceous, shrub, or young forest cover, are disappearing as abandoned farmland, pastures, and cleared forest patches return to forest. There are many questions about “why, what, where, and how” to manage for early successional habitats. In this book, expert scientists and experienced land managers synthesize knowledge and original scientific work to address questions on such topics as wildlife, water, carbon sequestration, natural versus managed disturbance, future scenarios, and sustainable creation and management of early successional habitat in a landscape context.
Author : Craig A. Harper
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 35,80 MB
Release : 2016-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780692592632
Establishing and managing wildlife food plots.
Author : Edward A. Johnson
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 23,30 MB
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0080506747
Even before the myth of Prometheus, fire played a crucial ecological role around the world. Numerous plant communities depend on fire to generate species diversity in both time and space. Without fire such ecosystems would become sterile monocultures. Recent efforts to prohibit fire in fire dependent communities have contributed to more intense and more damaging fires. For these reasons, foresters, ecologists, land managers, geographers, and environmental scientists are interested in the behavior and ecological effects of fires. This book will be the first to focus on the chemistry and physics of fire as it relates to the ways in which fire behaves and the impacts it has on ecosystem function. Leading international contributors have been recruited by the editors to prepare a didactic text/reference that will appeal to both advanced students and practicing professionals.
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Page : 108 pages
File Size : 38,84 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Forest management
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