Flames in our forest : disaster or renewal? /

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 consequence...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Arno, Stephen F.
Otros Autores: Allison-Bunnell, Steven
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Island Press, ©2002.
Temas:
Forest fires > Environmental aspects > West (U.S.)
Forests and forestry > Fire management > West (U.S.)
Fire ecology > West (U.S.)
Forêts > Incendies > Aspect de l'environnement > États-Unis (Ouest)
Forêts > Incendies > Lutte contre > 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
West United States
USA > Weststaaten
Bushfires
Forests
Environmental impact
United States
Overseas item
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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