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Flames in our forest : disaster or renewal? /

Main Author: Arno, Stephen F.
Other Authors: Allison-Bunnell, Steven.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Island Press, ©2002.
Subjects:
Forest fires > Environmental aspects > West (U.S.)
Forests and forestry > Fire management > West (U.S.)
Fire ecology > West (U.S.)
Forêts > Incendies > États-Unis (Ouest) > Aspect de l'environnement
Forêts > Incendies, Lutte contre les > États-Unis (Ouest)
Écologie des feux > États-Unis (Ouest)
SCIENCE > Environmental Science (see also Chemistry > Environmental)
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Wilderness.
NATURE > Ecology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Ecology.
Fire ecology.
Forest fires > Environmental aspects.
Forests and forestry > Fire management.
Waldökosystem.
Feuerökologie.
United States, West.
USA > Weststaaten.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: why learn about fire?
  • Mixed signals: a brief history of American perceptions of fire
  • Fire on the landscape: past, present, and future
  • Fire behavior: why and how fire burns
  • Nature's creative force: how fire shapes the forest
  • Different forests, different fires
  • Environmental impacts: fire's influence on soils, water, and air
  • Fire history: discovering effects of past fires in a forest
  • Fire-prone forests: can we adapt to them?
  • Restoring nature's creative force
  • Managing wildland fuels around homes
  • Lessons from nature: will we learn?

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