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1 online resource (xviii, 227 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-212) and index. |
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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Summary |
Annotation Shaped by fire for thousands of years, the forests of the western United States are as adapted to periodic fires as they are to the region's soils and climate. Our widespread practice of ignoring the vital role of fire is costly in both ecological and economic terms, with consequences including the decline of important fire-dependent tree and undergrowth species, increasing density and stagnation of forests, epidemics of insects and diseases, and the high potential for severe wildfires. Flames in Our Forestexplains those problems and presents viable solutions to them. It explores the underlying historical and ecological reasons for the problems associated with our attempts to exclude fire and examines how some of the benefits of natural fire can be restored Chapters consider: the history of American perceptions and uses of fire in the forest how forest fires burn effects of fire on the soil, water, and air methods for uncovering the history and effects of past fires prescribed fire and fuel treatments for different zones in the landscapeFlames in Our Forestpresents a new picture of the role of fire in maintaining forests, describes the options available for restoring the historical effects of fires, and considers the implications of not doing so. It will help readers appreciate the importance of fire in forests and gives a nontechnical overview of the scientific knowledge and tools available for sustaining western forests by mimicking and restoring the effects of natural fire regimes. |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Note |
Print version record. |
Subject |
Forest fires -- Environmental aspects -- West (U.S.)
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Forests and forestry -- Fire management -- West (U.S.)
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Fire ecology -- West (U.S.)
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SCIENCE -- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry -- Environmental)
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NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Wilderness.
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NATURE -- Ecology.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Ecology.
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Fire ecology. (OCoLC)fst00925297
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Forest fires -- Environmental aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00932147
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Forests and forestry -- Fire management.
(OCoLC)fst00932684
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United States, West. (OCoLC)fst01243255
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Waldökosystem.
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Feuerökologie.
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United States -- Weststaaten.
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Added Author |
Allison-Bunnell, Steven.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Arno, Stephen F. Flames in our forest. Washington, D.C. : Island Press, ©2002 1559638826 1559638834 (DLC) 2002000922 (OCoLC)48876498 |
ISBN |
1417539119 (electronic bk.) |
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9781417539116 (electronic bk.) |
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9781597266031 (electronic bk.) |
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1597266035 (electronic bk.) |
Music No. |
c2002. Island Press |
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