The Biswell Symposium, Fire Issues and Solutions in Urban Interface and Wildland Ecosystems
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Page : 214 pages
File Size : 29,77 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fire ecology
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Page : 214 pages
File Size : 29,77 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fire ecology
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Author : David R. Weise
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Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 1995
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Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,2 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Ecosystem management
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Page : 199 pages
File Size : 13,28 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Ecosystem management
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Author : David R. Weise
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Page : 199 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 1995-04-01
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ISBN : 9780788137679
Presents the proceedings of the symposium whose primary objective was to describe fire issues & problems currently facing land managers, & to present state of the art solutions that are currently being implemented by local, State, & Federal organizations concerned with fire management in both the wildland-urban interface & in wildlands. Includes 38 oral papers & 23 poster papers. The focal point of the symposium was the 1991 Oakland/Berkeley Hills "Tunnel Fire". However, the issues & solutions described are regional & national in scope.
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Page : 606 pages
File Size : 29,78 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Natural areas
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Page : 756 pages
File Size : 23,99 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Forest management
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Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 15,59 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.
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Page : 260 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Forests and forestry
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Page : 994 pages
File Size : 39,4 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biodiversity
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