Author: Donald A. Haines
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fire weather
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Climatic Conditions Preceding Historically Great Fires in the North Central Region
Author: Donald A. Haines
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fire weather
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fire weather
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
U.S.D.A. Forest Service Research Paper NC.
Author:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
U.S. Forest Service Research Paper NC.
Author: North Central Forest Experiment Station (Saint Paul, Minn.).
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Fire in America
Author: Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295805218
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 681
Book Description
From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295805218
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 681
Book Description
From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.
Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ...
Author: George Peabody Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Tropical Fire Ecology
Author: Mark Cochrane
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540773819
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
The tropics are home to most of the world’s biodiversity and are currently the frontier for human settlement. Tropical ecosystems are being converted to agricultural and other land uses at unprecedented rates. Land conversion and maintenance almost always rely on fire and, because of this, fire is now more prevalent in the tropics than anywhere else on Earth. Despite pervasive fire, human settlement and threatened biodiversity, there is little comprehensive information available on fire and its effects in tropical ecosystems. Tropical deforestation, especially in rainforests, has been widely documented for many years. Forests are cut down and allowed to dry before being burned to remove biomass and release nutrients to grow crops. However, fires do not always stop at the borders of cleared forests. Tremendously damaging fires are increasingly spreading into forests that were never evolutionarily prepared for wild fires. The largest fires on the planet in recent decades have occurred in tropical forests and burned millions of hectares in several countries. The numerous ecosystems of the tropics have differing levels of fire resistance, resilience or dependence. At present, there is little appreciation of the seriousness of the wild fire situation in tropical rainforests but there is even less understanding of the role that fire plays in the ecology of many fire adapted tropical ecosystems, such as savannas, grasslands and other forest types.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540773819
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
The tropics are home to most of the world’s biodiversity and are currently the frontier for human settlement. Tropical ecosystems are being converted to agricultural and other land uses at unprecedented rates. Land conversion and maintenance almost always rely on fire and, because of this, fire is now more prevalent in the tropics than anywhere else on Earth. Despite pervasive fire, human settlement and threatened biodiversity, there is little comprehensive information available on fire and its effects in tropical ecosystems. Tropical deforestation, especially in rainforests, has been widely documented for many years. Forests are cut down and allowed to dry before being burned to remove biomass and release nutrients to grow crops. However, fires do not always stop at the borders of cleared forests. Tremendously damaging fires are increasingly spreading into forests that were never evolutionarily prepared for wild fires. The largest fires on the planet in recent decades have occurred in tropical forests and burned millions of hectares in several countries. The numerous ecosystems of the tropics have differing levels of fire resistance, resilience or dependence. At present, there is little appreciation of the seriousness of the wild fire situation in tropical rainforests but there is even less understanding of the role that fire plays in the ecology of many fire adapted tropical ecosystems, such as savannas, grasslands and other forest types.
Michigan's Great Thumb Fires of 1871 and 1881
Author: Alan Naldrett
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781718122819
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
It is unimaginable to picture whole cities burning, much less whole counties, but that was the case in 1871, and then remarkably, ten years later again in 1881. The whole Michigan Thumb suffered two disastrous fires. The Thumb Fire of 1881 brought the American Red Cross to the first major disaster they brought relief to. The combination of the two fires marked the end of the lumber industry in the Thumb and the clearing of the land for agriculture. But that was the only benefit, as each fire brought over 200 dead, tens of thousands homeless, and thousands suffering burns, inhalation, smoke blindness, and more from the fires.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781718122819
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
It is unimaginable to picture whole cities burning, much less whole counties, but that was the case in 1871, and then remarkably, ten years later again in 1881. The whole Michigan Thumb suffered two disastrous fires. The Thumb Fire of 1881 brought the American Red Cross to the first major disaster they brought relief to. The combination of the two fires marked the end of the lumber industry in the Thumb and the clearing of the land for agriculture. But that was the only benefit, as each fire brought over 200 dead, tens of thousands homeless, and thousands suffering burns, inhalation, smoke blindness, and more from the fires.
Joint Documents of the State of Michigan
Author: Michigan
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ...
Author: Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1280
Book Description
Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan
Author: Michigan State Horticultural Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Horticulture
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Horticulture
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description