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Smokescreen : debunking wildfire myths to save our forests and our climate /

"Smokescreen cuts through years of misunderstanding and misdirection to make an impassioned, evidence-based argument for a new era of forest management for the sake of the planet and the human race. Natural fires are as essential as sun and rain in fire-adapted forests, but as humans encroach o...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hanson, Chad T. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2021]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Prologue : detours -- The fiery myths that undermine climate solutions -- The snag forest -- You can't fight the wind with a chain saw -- The "megafire" narrative -- What's the real "carbon bomb"? -- The economics of deceit -- What you aren't being told about "thinning" -- An inconvenient woodpecker -- Climate change enablers -- The logging collaboratives -- Fire in the east -- Fire-safe communities -- Keep it in the forest, keep it in the ground -- A new wildfire vocabulary -- Moving beyond the politics of fear. 
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