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Fire in the forest / by Thomas, Peter,1957-; McAlpine, Rob.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."How destructive or beneficial are forest fires to wildlife? Should we be trying to reduce or increase the amount of fire in forests? How are forest fires controlled, and why does this sometimes fail? What effect will climate change have? These and many other questions are answered in this richly illustrated book, written in non-technical language. The journey starts in the long geological history of fire leading up to our present love-hate relationship with it. Exploring the physics of how a single flame burns, the journey continues through how whole forests burn and the anatomy of firestorms. The positive and negative ecological effects of fires are explored, from plants and wildlife to whole landscapes. The journey ends with how fires are controlled, and a look to the future. This book will be of interest to ecologists, biogeographers and anyone with an interest in forest fires and the role they play"--1. In the beginning ... The nature of fire -- Just how widespread are forest fires? -- 2. Historical review -- The earliest beginnings of fire in geological time -- Tertiary and quaternary: the last 65 million years -- Holocene: the last 10,000 years -- The intervention of humans -- Uses of fire -- Control of fire: careful or careless? -- Effect of aboriginal people on the landscape -- Arrival of the Europeans -- Bambi and Smokey Bear -- Reduced fire frequencies -- Fire control to fire management -- Are fire frequencies increasing again? --3. How a fire burns -- Mechanics of fire -- Pre-ignition -- Ignition -- Combustion -- Heat transfer -- Variation in fuel quality -- Temperature and energy -- Anatomy of a fire -- Types of fire -- Dynamics of extreme fires -- Scales of fire impact: smoke --4. Fire in the wild landscape -- Causes of wildfire: how do they start? -- Which starts most fires? -- Which burns most area? -- The fire behavior triangle -- Fuel considerations: fires are what they consume -- The effect of climate and weather -- Fire season -- Variability in how a fire spreads -- The complexity of fire spread -- Patterns / mosaics on the landscape -- Patterns of fire over time -- Reconstructing fire history -- Fire size: how big is big? --5. Fire ecology -- How plants survive a surface fire -- Fire stimulation of flowering -- Ground fires and plant survival -- How plants cope with a crown fire -- Sneaking past: invasion after a fire -- Bacteria and fungi -- Animals and fire -- Post-fire recovery of plants and animals --6. The benefits of fire and its use as a landscape tool / with Peter Hobson -- Fire and biodiversity: an overview -- Unpicking the factors that affect biodiversity -- Environmental legacies: dead wood and biodiversity -- Fire, forests and conservation -- Can clear-cutting replace fire? -- The future for fire-prone forests: environmental uncertainty, macroecology and ecosystem resilience -- Fire as a management tool in the landscape -- Fire and soils -- The wildland-urban interface (WUI) -- The role of prescribed burning in wildland-urban interface areas --7. Fire suppression -- Preliminary steps: fire intelligence -- Fire detection -- Dispatch -- Resources for fire suppression -- Suppression -- Suppression failure: large fire management -- Fatality fires -- The fire-management organisation --8. Wildland fire and its management - a look towards the future / Kelvin Kirsch -- The age of uncertainty -- Trends and supertrends -- Adaptation -- Innovation -- The future: ours for the making.
Subjects: Forest fires.;
© 2010., Cambridge University Press,
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Year of the fires : the story of the great fires of 1910 / by Pyne, Stephen J.,1949-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-312) and index.
Subjects: Forest fires; Forest fires; Fires; Fires;
© 2002., Penguin,
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Steaming through smoke and fire, 1871 : true stories of shipwreck and disaster on the Great Lakes / by Donahue, James L.,1938-; Historical Society of Michigan (1874- );
Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-178) and index.
Subjects: Shipwrecks; Forest fires;
© 1990., Published by J.L. Donahue in cooperation with the Historical Society of Michigan,
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Michigan on fire 2 / by Sodders, Betty.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-201) and index.Bringing the fire story out of the past ... into the present -- Fire towers -- Bog fires had a history of seemingly burning forever -- The Fletcher Road Fire, 1968 -- Prescription for fire -- The Seney Fire, 1976 -- The National Guard Fires, Camp Grayling -- Coverage of the Mack Lake Fire, 1980 -- Escanaba's "Stockyard Fire", 1988 -- Taking a look at the DNR's Forest Fire Experimental Station, Roscommon -- The Stephan Bridge Fire, 1990 -- A look at Michigan's DNR fire-equipment Hummers -- Conclusion -- Postscript: Where we are now / by Arthur J. Sutton.
Subjects: Wildfires; Forest fires;
© c1999., Thunder Bay Press,
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Michigan on fire / by Sodders, Betty.; Weeks, Don.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-378) and index.SECTION 1: THE GREAT FIRES OF 1871: Extent and causes -- Under the lilacs -- Michigan's West coast in danger -- Streaming through smoke & fire -- The burning: Saginaw Valley and the Thumb Area -- SECTION 2: THUMB FIRES OF 1881: The Thumb Fires of 1881: Why, where, when -- The public responds to research requests -- Excerpts from The Flaming Forest -- Remembering -- Michigan's "Sore Thumb": first disaster relief for the American Red Cross -- SECTION 3: OVER THE YEARS: U.P. FOEESTS BLACKENED: A chronology of U.P. forest fires -- The Ontonagon Fire of 1896 -- Newspaper clips & eyewitness accounts: Ontanagon fire of 1896 -- U.P. fires -- Railroads through smoke & fire -- SECTION 4: THE METZ FIRE OF 1908: Metz: the village vanishes -- Metz: an ascent from ashes -- Devastation beyond Metz -- SECTION 5: AUSABLE-OSCODA FIRE OF 1911: Sibling rivalry: Twin Cities burn -- The aftermath: 12 to 72 hours later -- Neil Thornton's version of the Fire of 1911 -- Conclusion -- Postscript / by Robert H. Zeil.
Subjects: Wildfires; Forest fires;
© c1997., Thunder Bay Press,
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Young men & fire / by Maclean, Norman,1902-;
Subjects: Forest fires; Smokejumpers; United States. Forest Service; United States. Forest Service.; Forests Fires History; Montana;
© , University of Chicago Press, c1992.
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Fire season : field notes from a wilderness lookout / by Connors, Philip.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-246).The author discusses his time spent ten thousand feet above ground as a fire lookout in a remote part of New Mexico, a job where he witnessed some of the most amazing phenomena nature has to offer.
Subjects: Connors, Philip.; Fire lookouts; Fire lookout stations;
© c2011., Ecco,
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The stars are fire : a novel / by Shreve, Anita.;
A novel based on the true story of the largest fire in Maine's history follows the experiences of a pregnant woman who struggles to protect her two young children and watches her home burn while her husband joins the volunteer firefighters.October 1947. After a summer long drought, fires break out all along the Maine coast and are soon racing out of control. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her husband, Gene, joins the volunteer firefighters. Along with her best friend, Rosie, and Rosie's two young children, Grace watches helplessly as their houses burn to the ground, the flames finally forcing them all into the ocean as a last resort. Awaiting news of their husbands' fate, facing an uncertain future in a town that no longer exists, Grace discovers joys and triumphs she could never have expected her narrow life with Gene could contain.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Great Fire, Maine, 1947; Life change events; Single mothers; Wildfires; Forest fires;
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Firestorm : how wildfire will shape our future / by Struzik, Edward,1954-author.;
"In the spring of 2016, the world watched as wildfire ravaged the Canadian town of Fort McMurray. Firefighters named the fire "the Beast" because it behaved in seemingly sinister and often unpredictable ways. Many of them hoped that they would never see anything like it again. Yet it's not a stretch to suggest that megafires like the Beast have become the new normal. A glance at international headlines shows a remarkable increase in higher temperatures, stronger winds, and drier lands--a trifecta for igniting wildfires like we have rarely seen before. Fires are burning bigger, hotter, faster, and more often. In Firestorm, journalist Edward Struzik confronts this new reality, offering a deftly woven tale of science, economics, politics, and human determination. To understand how we might yet flourish in the coming age of megafires, Struzik visits scorched earth from Alaska to Maine, and introduces the scientists, firefighters, and resource managers making the case for a radically different approach to managing wildfire in the twenty-first century. We must begin by acknowledging that fire is unavoidable, and be much more prepared to cope when we cannot completely control the flames. Living with fire also means, Struzik reveals, that we must better understand how the surprising, far-reaching impacts of these massive fires will linger long after the smoke eventually clears"--Jacket flap.Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-257).The beast awakens -- Inside the mind of a wildfire -- A history of fire suppression -- Visions of the Pyrocene -- Water on fire -- The big smoke -- Drought, disease, insects, and wildfire -- Fire on ice -- Agent of change -- Resilience and recovery.
Subjects: Wildfires; Wildfires; Wildfires; Wildfires; Fire ecology; Forest policy; Forest policy;
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The legend of sleeping bear / by Wargin, Kathy-jo.; Frankenhuyzen, Gijsbert van,ill.;
In this retelling of an Ojibwe Indian tale, a mother bear loses sight of her two cubs as they all attempt to escape a forest fire by swimming across Lake Michigan.
Subjects: Ojibwa Indians; Legends; Ojibwa Indians; Indians of North America; Folklore;
© 2008., Sleeping Bear Press,
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