Author: Arnold Court
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Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Lightning causes more fires in northeastern California than in all the rest of the State combined. Around Mt. Ingalls in Plumas county, the incidence is about one fire per 10 square miles per year. In northeastern California generally, three-fourths of all lightning-caused forest fires occur in July, August, and September, and two-thirds start between 1 and 6 p.m. These, and other details of lightning-fire incidence on public and private lands were established from tabulation of individual fire reports, as part of a research project supported by the Division of Forestry, California Department of Natural Resources.
Lightning Fire Incidence in Northeastern California
Author: Arnold Court
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Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Lightning causes more fires in northeastern California than in all the rest of the State combined. Around Mt. Ingalls in Plumas county, the incidence is about one fire per 10 square miles per year. In northeastern California generally, three-fourths of all lightning-caused forest fires occur in July, August, and September, and two-thirds start between 1 and 6 p.m. These, and other details of lightning-fire incidence on public and private lands were established from tabulation of individual fire reports, as part of a research project supported by the Division of Forestry, California Department of Natural Resources.
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Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Lightning causes more fires in northeastern California than in all the rest of the State combined. Around Mt. Ingalls in Plumas county, the incidence is about one fire per 10 square miles per year. In northeastern California generally, three-fourths of all lightning-caused forest fires occur in July, August, and September, and two-thirds start between 1 and 6 p.m. These, and other details of lightning-fire incidence on public and private lands were established from tabulation of individual fire reports, as part of a research project supported by the Division of Forestry, California Department of Natural Resources.
Attempts to Reduce Lightning Fire Occurrence in Northeastern California, 1957-1959
Author: California. Division of Forestry
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Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Forest Fire Research in California
Author: Carl C. Wilson
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Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Fire, Native Peoples, and the Natural Landscape
Author: Thomas Vale
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1597266027
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
For nearly two centuries, the creation myth for the United States imagined European settlers arriving on the shores of a vast, uncharted wilderness. Over the last two decades, however, a contrary vision has emerged, one which sees the country's roots not in a state of "pristine" nature but rather in a "human-modified landscape" over which native peoples exerted vast control. Fire, Native Peoples, and the Natural Landscape seeks a middle ground between those conflicting paradigms, offering a critical, research-based assessment of the role of Native Americans in modifying the landscapes of pre-European America. Contributors focus on the western United States and look at the question of fire regimes, the single human impact which could have altered the environment at a broad, landscape scale, and which could have been important in almost any part of the West. Each of the seven chapters is written by a different author about a different subregion of the West, evaluating the question of whether the fire regimes extant at the time of European contact were the product of natural factors or whether ignitions by Native Americans fundamentally changed those regimes. An introductory essay offers context for the regional chapters, and a concluding section compares results from the various regions and highlights patterns both common to the West as a whole and distinctive for various parts of the western states. The final section also relates the findings to policy questions concerning the management of natural areas, particularly on federal lands, and of the "naturalness" of the pre-European western landscape.
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1597266027
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
For nearly two centuries, the creation myth for the United States imagined European settlers arriving on the shores of a vast, uncharted wilderness. Over the last two decades, however, a contrary vision has emerged, one which sees the country's roots not in a state of "pristine" nature but rather in a "human-modified landscape" over which native peoples exerted vast control. Fire, Native Peoples, and the Natural Landscape seeks a middle ground between those conflicting paradigms, offering a critical, research-based assessment of the role of Native Americans in modifying the landscapes of pre-European America. Contributors focus on the western United States and look at the question of fire regimes, the single human impact which could have altered the environment at a broad, landscape scale, and which could have been important in almost any part of the West. Each of the seven chapters is written by a different author about a different subregion of the West, evaluating the question of whether the fire regimes extant at the time of European contact were the product of natural factors or whether ignitions by Native Americans fundamentally changed those regimes. An introductory essay offers context for the regional chapters, and a concluding section compares results from the various regions and highlights patterns both common to the West as a whole and distinctive for various parts of the western states. The final section also relates the findings to policy questions concerning the management of natural areas, particularly on federal lands, and of the "naturalness" of the pre-European western landscape.
An Automatic Lightning Detection System in Northern California
Author: James A. Rea
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Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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Research Note - Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station
Author: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station (Berkeley, Calif.)
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Proceedings of the Symposium on the Environmental Consequences of Fire and Fuel Management in Mediterranean Ecosystems, August 1-5, 1977, Palo Alto, California
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Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Progress Toward Locating Lightning Fires
Author: Don J. Latham
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Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Systems to enable land managers to locate, evaluate, and counter the fire threat of lightning storms are in the early stages of development. In the western U.S. and Alaska, the Bureau of Land Management has established networks of instruments that locate lightning strikes by means of recorded azimuths. Further research could add important capabilities: identifying and counting strikes with fire-starting potential, estimating ignition probabilities under various fuel and weather conditions, and predicting fire behavior immediately after ignition.
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Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Systems to enable land managers to locate, evaluate, and counter the fire threat of lightning storms are in the early stages of development. In the western U.S. and Alaska, the Bureau of Land Management has established networks of instruments that locate lightning strikes by means of recorded azimuths. Further research could add important capabilities: identifying and counting strikes with fire-starting potential, estimating ignition probabilities under various fuel and weather conditions, and predicting fire behavior immediately after ignition.
Technical Paper
Author: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station (Berkeley, Calif.)
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Miscellaneous Paper
Author: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station (Berkeley, Calif.)
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 1460
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 1460
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