Summer Wildfires of 2000

Summer Wildfires of 2000

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management

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Published: 2001

Total Pages: 248

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Summer Wildfires of 2000

Summer Wildfires of 2000

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management

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Published: 2001

Total Pages: 260

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Crossdated Fire Histories (1650-1900) from Ponderosa Pine-Dominated Forests of Idaho and Western Montana

Crossdated Fire Histories (1650-1900) from Ponderosa Pine-Dominated Forests of Idaho and Western Montana

Author: Emily K. Heyerdahl

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Published: 2012-10-22

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 9781480165106

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For a broader study of the climate drivers of regional-fire years in the Northern Rockies, we reconstructed a history of surface fires at 21 sites in Idaho and western Montana. We targeted sites that historically sustained frequent surface fires and were dominated or codominated by ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa P. & C. Lawson). Our objective is to report the site-specific fire and site information we did not report in our regional study that might be useful to local land managers for determining such things as Fire Regime Condition Class. We include 23 sites--20 from our regional study (one was reported elsewhere) and another three sampled in the region for other purposes. We crossdated samples from 640 trees to obtain calendar years for each tree ring and hence for 9,691 fire scars. For each site, we report the chronology of surface fires, properties of the fire regime (mean fire interval and intra-ring position of fire scars), and forest type, as well as topography that might be used to extrapolate site-specific fire regimes to unsampled areas.


Forest Fires, 1967

Forest Fires, 1967

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Total Pages: 0

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Articles from various newspapers from western Montana, Idaho, and eastern Washington discussing the conditions and recovery aspects of the Northern Rockies forest fires of 1967.


Wildfire

Wildfire

Author: Alianor True

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 2013-04-10

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 155963359X

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During the summer of 2000, Americans from coast to coast witnessed the worst fire season in recorded history. Daily news reports brought dramatic images of vast swaths of land going up in smoke, from the mountains of Montana and Wyoming, to the scrublands of Texas, to Los Alamos, New Mexico, where a controlled burn gone awry threatened forests, homes, and even our nation's nuclear secrets. As they have for centuries, wildfires captured our attention and our imagination, reminding us of the power of the natural forces that shape our world. In Wildfire: A Reader nature writer and wildland firefighter Alianor True gathers together for the first time some of the finest stories and essays ever written about wildfire in America. From Mark Twain to Norman Maclean to Edward Abbey, writers featured here depict and record wildfires with remarkable depth and clarity. An ecological perspective is well represented through the works of John Muir, Aldo Leopold, and John McPhee. Ed Engle, Louise Wagenknecht, and Gretchen Yost, firefighters from the front lines, give us exciting first-person perspectives, reliving their on-the-ground encounters with forest fires. The works gathered in Wildfire not only explore the sensory and aesthetic aspects of fire, but also highlight how much attitudes have changed over the past 200 years. From Native Americans who used fire as a tool, to early Americans who viewed it as a frightening and destructive force, to Aldo Leopold and other conservationists whose ideas caused us to rethink the value and role of fire, this rich collection is organized around those shifts in thinking. Capturing the fury and the heat of a raging inferno, or the quiet emergence of wildflowers sprouting from ashes, the writings included in Wildfire represent a vital and compelling addition to the nature writing and natural history bookshelf.


Measuring Forest-fire Danger in Northern Idaho

Measuring Forest-fire Danger in Northern Idaho

Author: Harry Thomas Gisborne

Publisher:

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13:

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Fire is a natural phenomenon, occurring in accordance with natural laws. The first problem in dealing with fire is, therefore, to discover these laws; and this naturally resolves itself into the problem of isolating and measuring each factor that influences fire and determining its relative importance. The ultimate scope of forest-fire studies is limited only by the number of these factors.


Wildfire

Wildfire

Author: Scott Thybony

Publisher: Western National Parks Association

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 1583690247

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Wildfire is a natural phenomenon that has crept closer to humans as humans have moved into its natural habitat. Now we live with its threat every long, hot summer. Learn about wildfire's natural place in the environment, how we fight it, and how we live with it.