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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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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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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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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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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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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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Fire weather : [electronic resource] : A true story from a hotter world. by Vaillant, John.; Carlson, Alan.;
Narrator: Alan Carlson.In May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Canada's oil industry and America's biggest foreign supplier, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster melted vehicles, turned entire neighborhoods into firebombs, and drove 88,000 people from their homes in a single afternoon. Through the lens of this apocalyptic conflagration -- the wildfire equivalent of Hurricane Katrina -- John Vaillant warns that this was not a unique event, but a shocking preview of what we must prepare for in a hotter, more flammable world. For hundreds of millennia, fire has been a partner in our evolution, shaping culture, civilization, and, very likely, our brains. Fire has enabled us to cook our food, defend and heat our homes, and power the machines that drive our titanic economy. Yet this volatile energy source has always threatened to elude our control, and in our new age of intensifying climate change, we are seeing its destructive power unleashed in previously unimaginable ways. With masterly prose and a cinematic eye, Vaillant takes us on a riveting journey through the intertwined histories of North America's oil industry and the birth of climate science, to the unprecedented devastation wrought by modern forest fires, and into lives forever changed by these disasters.Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Nonfiction.; Nature.; Science.; Sociology.;
© 2023., Books on Tape,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=9350414 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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The world of northern evergreens / by Pielou, E. C.,1924-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Origin of the Evergreen Forests ; Conifers and the Ice Age ; The Advantages of Being Evergreen ; The Advantages of Long-Lived Leaves ; Enduring the Cold -- 2. Identifying the Conifers ; How Plants (Including Trees) Are Classified ; The Ten Genera ; The Thirty-Two Species ; Conifer Families -- 3. Reproduction of Conifers ; Pollen Cones and Pollen ; Pollination ; A Contrast between Seed Cones and Pollen Cones ; Vegetative Reproduction -- 4. The Life and Growth of a Conifer ; Wood ; Cut Stumps and Whole Trees ; Outside the Cambium ; Leaves ; Roots -- 5. Broadleafs Growing among the Conifers ; Broadleafs in a Harsh Climate ; Poplars ; Birches ; Alders -- 6. Two Kinds of Trees: Conifers and Broadleafs ; The Ancestry of "Trees" ; The Basic Difference between Conifers and Broadleafs ; Gymnosperms Are Woody ; The Speed of Living ; The Architecture of Trees ; Vegetative Reproduction ; The Aroma of Conifers -- 7. Life on the Forest Floor ; The Soil ; Forest Flowers ; The Floor of the Boreal Forest ; Valuable Dead Wood and Debris ; Open Water -- 8. Parasites on the Conifers ; The Value of Rot and Decay ; Decay Fungi ; Rusts ; Dwarf Mistletoe -- 9. Insects and Conifers ; Insects as Feeders ; Beetles ; Caterpillars and Pseudocaterpillars ; Sawflies ; Bugs ; Parasitoids ; Ants and Others -- 10. Some Mammals and Birds of the Forest ; Food and Shelter ; Seldom Seen Mammals ; Squirrels and Their Relatives ; A Rodent and a Lagomorph ; Big Herbivores ; Carnivores ; Big Omnivores ; Birds -- 11. Natural and Unnatural Interference ; Fire ; Forest Succession ; Snow and Wind ; Air Pollution and Acid Rain ; Logging -- 12. The Big Picture ; Forest Regions ; What Controls Which Species Grow Where -- 13. Global Warming and the Forests ; The Physics of Climate Change ; How Will Climate Change Affect the Forests ; Fire and the Forests ; Insects, Lightning, Wind, and Snow (Again) ; The Value (If Any) of Predictions."Global warming and human-driven impacts from logging, natural gas drilling, mining of oil sands, and the development of hydropower increasingly threaten North America's northern forests. These forests are far from being a uniform environment; close inspection reveals that the conifers that thrive there - pines, larches, spruces, hemlocks, firs, Douglas-firs, arborvitaes, false-cypresses, junipers, and yews - support a varied and complex ecosystem. In The World of Northern Evergreens, the noted ecologist E. C. Pielou introduces the biology of the northern forests and provides a unique invitation to naturalists, ecologists, foresters, and everyone living in northern North America who wants to learn about this unique and threatened northern world and the species that make it their home.Through identification keys, descriptions, and life histories of the conifer tree species, the author emphasizes how different these plants are both biologically and evolutionarily from the hardwoods we also call "trees." Following this introduction to the essential conifers, the author's perceptive insights expand to include the interactions of conifers with other plants, fungi, mammals, birds, and amphibians.The second edition, enriched by new illustrations by the author of woodland features and creatures, updates the text to include new topics including mycorrhizal fungi, soil, woodlice, bats, and invasive insects such as the hemlock woolly adelgid. Emphasis is given to the very real human-driven impacts that threaten the species that live in and depend on the vital and complex forest ecosystem. Pielou provides us with a rich understanding of the northern forests in this work praised for its nontechnical presentation, scientific objectivity, and original illustrations."--pub. desc.
Subjects: Conifers; Evergreens; Forest ecology;
© c2011., Comstock Pub. Associates/Cornell University Press,
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Glimpses of Grand Traverse past : reflections on a local history / by Fidler, Richard.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-118).Chapter 1 - August 9, 1924: Terror Strikes Traverse City -- Chapter 2 - The Forest Primeval -- Chapter 3 - But What About the Women? -- Chapter 4 - A Promising Experiment Gone Bad -- Chapter 5 - The Presidential Election of 1912 -- Chapter 6 - Keeping a Record of the Times -- Chapter 7 - Why Front Street Isn't on the Waterfront -- Chapter 8 - From a Single Bookcase -- Chapter 9 - "A View of the Bay is Worth Half the Pay" -- Chapter 10 - Oakwood Cemetary -- Chapter 11 - Life on Kid's Creek -- Chapter 12 - "Hamilton Way": A Mystery Solved -- Chapter 13 - Fire! -- Chapter 14 - August 18, 1904: The Funeral of Perry Hannah -- Chapter 15 - The Struggle for a Clean Glass of Water -- Chapter 16 - The Pines.Why does Grand Traverse County usually vote Republican? How did it come about that "A View of the Bay is worth half the pay?" How did the Ku Klux Klan gain a foothold locally? Where were the women of Grand Traverse in the nineteenth century? These and other questions are answered in discussions focused on important historical events, artifacts, and institutions of the Grand Traverse area. Thoughtful and at times provocative, Glimpses of Grand Traverse Past explores who we are and how we got that way. Illustrated with archived photographs, it presents a refreshingly new perspective on our local history.
© 2010., Grand Traverse Pioneer and Historical Society,
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