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GAO-04-705 Wildland Fires: Forest Service and BLM Need Better Information and a Systematic Approach for Assessing the Risks of Environmental Effects
Author : United States Government Accountability Office
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 19,24 MB
Release : 2018-02
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ISBN : 9781984929273
GAO-04-705 Wildland Fires: Forest Service and BLM Need Better Information and a Systematic Approach for Assessing the Risks of Environmental Effects
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,55 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Wildfires
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Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 30,51 MB
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0816532192
From a fire policy of prevention at all costs to today's restored burning, Between Two Fires is America's history channeled through the story of wildland fire management. Stephen J. Pyne tells of a fire revolution that began in the 1960s as a reaction to simple suppression and single-agency hegemony, and then matured into more enlightened programs of fire management. It describes the counterrevolution of the 1980s that stalled the movement, the revival of reform after 1994, and the fire scene that has evolved since then. Pyne is uniquely qualified to tell America’s fire story. The author of more than a score of books, he has told fire’s history in the United States, Australia, Canada, Europe, and the Earth overall. In his earlier life, he spent fifteen seasons with the North Rim Longshots at Grand Canyon National Park. In Between Two Fires, Pyne recounts how, after the Great Fires of 1910, a policy of fire suppression spread from America’s founding corps of foresters into a national policy that manifested itself as a costly all-out war on fire. After fifty years of attempted fire suppression, a revolution in thinking led to a more pluralistic strategy for fire’s restoration. The revolution succeeded in displacing suppression as a sole strategy, but it has failed to fully integrate fire and land management and has fallen short of its goals. Today, the nation’s backcountry and increasingly its exurban fringe are threatened by larger and more damaging burns, fire agencies are scrambling for funds, firefighters continue to die, and the country seems unable to come to grips with the fundamentals behind a rising tide of megafires. Pyne has once again constructed a history of record that will shape our next century of fire management. Between Two Fires is a story of ideas, institutions, and fires. It’s America’s story told through the nation’s flames.
Author : Barry T. Hill
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 40,49 MB
Release : 2004
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ISBN : 1428938788
Decades of fire suppression, as well as changing land management practices, have caused vegetation to accumulate and become altered on federal lands. Concerns about the effects of wildland fires have increased efforts to reduce fuels on federal lands. These efforts also have environmental effects. The requesters asked GAO to (1) describe effects from fires on the environment, (2) assess the information gathered by the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on such effects, and (3) assess the agencies approaches to environmental risks associated with reducing fuels. This report recommends that the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior (1) develop a plan to implement the agencies monitoring framework, (2) develop guidance that formalizes the assessment of landscape-level risks to ecosystems, and (3) clarify existing guidance, working with the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), to assess the risks of environmental effects from reducing fuels.
Author : Keith M. Reynolds
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 28,4 MB
Release : 2014-03-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3642320007
Since 1997, the Ecosystem Management Decision Support (EMDS) system has been used around the world to support environmental analysis and planning in many different application areas, and it has been applied over a wide range of geographic scales, from forest stands to entire countries. An extensive sampling of this diversity of applications is presented in section 2, in which EMDS application developers describe the varied uses of the system. These accounts, together with the requisite background in section 1, provide valuable practical insights into how the system can be applied in the general domain of environmental management.
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 35,26 MB
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ISBN : 142893197X
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
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Page : 1876 pages
File Size : 23,55 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Law
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 12,59 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Forests and forestry
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Author : Robin M. Nazzaro
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 32,42 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 143792218X
The nation's wildland fire problems have worsened dramatically over the past decade, with more than a doubling of average annual acreage burned and federal appropriations for wildland fire management. The deteriorating fire situation has led the agencies responsible for managing wildland fires on federal lands -- the Forest Service in the Department of Agriculture and four agencies in the Department of the Interior -- to reassess how they respond to wildland fire and to take steps to improve their fire management programs. This report reviewed: (1) progress the agencies have made in managing wildland fire; and (2) key actions previously recommended and are still necessary to improve wildland fire management. Charts and tables.
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 28,5 MB
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ISBN : 9781422323502