Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 28,28 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Forest fires
ISBN :
Committee Serial No. 14. Hearings were held in Los Angeles, Calif.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 30,13 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Forest fires
ISBN :
Committee Serial No. 14. Hearings were held in Los Angeles, Calif.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 29,53 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Wildfires
ISBN :
Author : Jan W. van Wagtendonk
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 42,22 MB
Release : 2018-06-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 0520961919
Fire in California’s Ecosystems describes fire in detail—both as an integral natural process in the California landscape and as a growing threat to urban and suburban developments in the state. Written by many of the foremost authorities on the subject, this comprehensive volume is an ideal authoritative reference tool and the foremost synthesis of knowledge on the science, ecology, and management of fire in California. Part One introduces the basics of fire ecology, including overviews of historical fires, vegetation, climate, weather, fire as a physical and ecological process, and fire regimes, and reviews the interactions between fire and the physical, plant, and animal components of the environment. Part Two explores the history and ecology of fire in each of California's nine bioregions. Part Three examines fire management in California during Native American and post-Euro-American settlement and also current issues related to fire policy such as fuel management, watershed management, air quality, invasive plant species, at-risk species, climate change, social dynamics, and the future of fire management. This edition includes critical scientific and management updates and four new chapters on fire weather, fire regimes, climate change, and social dynamics.
Author : Richard A. Chase
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 34,21 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Assistance in emergencies
ISBN :
FIRESCOPE is a system developed to improve the capability of firefighting agencies in southern California in allocating and managing fire suppression resources.
Author : George Wuerthner
Publisher :
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 27,7 MB
Release : 2006-08-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
The Wildfire Reader presents, in an affordable paperback edition, the essays included in Wildfire, offering a concise overview of fire landscapes and the past century of forest policy that has affected them.
Author : Harold Mooney
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 32,21 MB
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0520278801
This long-anticipated reference and sourcebook for CaliforniaÕs remarkable ecological abundance provides an integrated assessment of each major ecosystem typeÑits distribution, structure, function, and management. A comprehensive synthesis of our knowledge about this biologically diverse state, Ecosystems of California covers the state from oceans to mountaintops using multiple lenses: past and present, flora and fauna, aquatic and terrestrial, natural and managed. Each chapter evaluates natural processes for a specific ecosystem, describes drivers of change, and discusses how that ecosystem may be altered in the future. This book also explores the drivers of CaliforniaÕs ecological patterns and the history of the stateÕs various ecosystems, outlining how the challenges of climate change and invasive species and opportunities for regulation and stewardship could potentially affect the stateÕs ecosystems. The text explicitly incorporates both human impacts and conservation and restoration efforts and shows how ecosystems support human well-being. Edited by two esteemed ecosystem ecologists and with overviews by leading experts on each ecosystem, this definitive work will be indispensable for natural resource management and conservation professionals as well as for undergraduate or graduate students of CaliforniaÕs environment and curious naturalists.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 46,92 MB
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309499909
California and other wildfire-prone western states have experienced a substantial increase in the number and intensity of wildfires in recent years. Wildlands and climate experts expect these trends to continue and quite likely to worsen in coming years. Wildfires and other disasters can be particularly devastating for vulnerable communities. Members of these communities tend to experience worse health outcomes from disasters, have fewer resources for responding and rebuilding, and receive less assistance from state, local, and federal agencies. Because burning wood releases particulate matter and other toxicants, the health effects of wildfires extend well beyond burns. In addition, deposition of toxicants in soil and water can result in chronic as well as acute exposures. On June 4-5, 2019, four different entities within the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop titled Implications of the California Wildfires for Health, Communities, and Preparedness at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at the University of California, Davis. The workshop explored the population health, environmental health, emergency preparedness, and health equity consequences of increasingly strong and numerous wildfires, particularly in California. This publication is a summary of the presentations and discussion of the workshop.
Author : Harold K. Steen
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 15,94 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295983738
The U.S. Forest Service celebrates its centennial in 2005. With a new preface by the author, this edition of Harold K. Steen’s classic history (originally published in 1976) provides a broad perspective on the Service’s administrative and policy controversies and successes. Steen updates the book with discussions of a number of recent concerns, among them the spotted owl issue; wilderness and roadless areas; new research on habitat, biodiversity, and fire prevention; below-cost timber sales; and workplace diversity in a male-oriented field.
Author : Edward A. Johnson
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 13,37 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.
