Wildland Fire, Forest Dynamics, and Their Interactions
Wildland Firefighting Practices
1st Edition
by Joseph Lowe(Author)
This well-illustrated book describes in detail all aspects of wildland firefighting. Written in a clear, "how-to" style by a seasoned fire officer, it provides a comprehensive explanation of all the skills a firefighter needs to operate effectively against any type of wildland blaze. Step-by-step photographs of actual operations make it easy for the user to understand the material; illustrations and graphs reinforce the learning process. This book leaves readers with a complete understanding of the challenges they will face - and with the skills and confidence to meet the challenges of being a wildland firefighter.
1st Edition
by Joseph Lowe(Author)
This well-illustrated book describes in detail all aspects of wildland firefighting. Written in a clear, "how-to" style by a seasoned fire officer, it provides a comprehensive explanation of all the skills a firefighter needs to operate effectively against any type of wildland blaze. Step-by-step photographs of actual operations make it easy for the user to understand the material; illustrations and graphs reinforce the learning process. This book leaves readers with a complete understanding of the challenges they will face - and with the skills and confidence to meet the challenges of being a wildland firefighter.
Wildland Fires and Air Pollution: Volume 8
Wildland fires in Banff National Park, 1880-1980 (Occasional paper / National Parks Branch, Parks Canada, Environment Canada)
Paperback – January 1, 1985
by Cliff White (Author)
First edition in trade paperback. 106 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography. Small split on spine, minor wave to text block, other light wear. Very Good.
Paperback – January 1, 1985
by Cliff White (Author)
First edition in trade paperback. 106 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography. Small split on spine, minor wave to text block, other light wear. Very Good.
Wildland Fires: A Worldwide Reality (Environmental Remediation Technologies, Regulatoins and Safety)
UK ed. Edition
by António José Bento Gonçalves(Author, Editor), António Avelino Batista Vieira(Editor)
It has been estimated that more than 30% of the global land surface is subject to a considerable frequency of vegetation fires (Chuvieco et al., 2008). Li et al. (2013, 2014) argues that fire is an important Earth system process and a primary terrestrial ecosystem disturbance agent on a global scale which depends on an array of attributes, including vegetation characteristics, climate, and human activities, and fire generates feedback by affecting biogeochemical cycles, vegetation composition and structure, landatmosphere water and heat exchanges, atmospheric chemistry and composition, and human health and property. Although wildland fires are characteristic of certain regions and seasons, vegetation fires occur with varying regularity and severity across almost every biome on Earth (Archibald et al., 2013). Earth's forests and vegetation provide a vast source of fuel, and fires consume huge quantities of biomass in all ecosystems ranging across all biomes, from tundra to savanna and from boreal to tropical forests, where many of our ecosystems are considered fire dependent (Belcher, 2013). It is both friend and foe to the human race, having strongly influenced our social development and success as a species, but also acts as a serious threat to human life (Belcher, 2013). The present book outlines different perspectives regarding wildland fires, mega fires, wildland-urban interfaces, and its ecosystem impacts. It also presents different case-studies from eight countries (Portugal, Spain, Greece, Israel, Algeria, Russia, Lithuania and Chile), including valuable contributions that reflect its title: "Wildland Fires - A Worldwide Reality".
UK ed. Edition
by António José Bento Gonçalves(Author, Editor), António Avelino Batista Vieira(Editor)
It has been estimated that more than 30% of the global land surface is subject to a considerable frequency of vegetation fires (Chuvieco et al., 2008). Li et al. (2013, 2014) argues that fire is an important Earth system process and a primary terrestrial ecosystem disturbance agent on a global scale which depends on an array of attributes, including vegetation characteristics, climate, and human activities, and fire generates feedback by affecting biogeochemical cycles, vegetation composition and structure, landatmosphere water and heat exchanges, atmospheric chemistry and composition, and human health and property. Although wildland fires are characteristic of certain regions and seasons, vegetation fires occur with varying regularity and severity across almost every biome on Earth (Archibald et al., 2013). Earth's forests and vegetation provide a vast source of fuel, and fires consume huge quantities of biomass in all ecosystems ranging across all biomes, from tundra to savanna and from boreal to tropical forests, where many of our ecosystems are considered fire dependent (Belcher, 2013). It is both friend and foe to the human race, having strongly influenced our social development and success as a species, but also acts as a serious threat to human life (Belcher, 2013). The present book outlines different perspectives regarding wildland fires, mega fires, wildland-urban interfaces, and its ecosystem impacts. It also presents different case-studies from eight countries (Portugal, Spain, Greece, Israel, Algeria, Russia, Lithuania and Chile), including valuable contributions that reflect its title: "Wildland Fires - A Worldwide Reality".
Wildland Fuel Fundamentals and Applications
2015th Edition
by Robert E. Keane (Author) A new era in wildland fuel sciences is now evolving in such a way that fire scientists and managers need a comprehensive understanding of fuels ecology and science to fully understand fire effects and behavior on diverse ecosystem and landscape characteristics. This is a reference book on wildland fuel science; a book that describes fuels and their application in land management. There has never been a comprehensive book on wildland fuels; most wildland fuel information was put into wildland fire science and management books as separate chapters and sections. This book is the first to highlight wildland fuels and treat them as a natural resource rather than a fire behavior input. Moreover, there has never been a comprehensive description of fuels and their ecology, measurement, and description under one reference; most wildland fuel information is scattered across diverse and unrelated venues from combustion science to fire ecology to carbon dynamics. The literature and data for wildland fuel science has never been synthesized into one reference; most studies were done for diverse and unique objectives. This book is the first to link the disparate fields of ecology, wildland fire, and carbon to describe fuel science. This just deals with the science and ecology of wildland fuels, not fuels management. However, since expensive fuel treatments are being planned in fire dominated landscapes across the world to minimize fire damage to people, property and ecosystems, it is incredibly important that people understand wildland fuels to develop more effective fuel management activities.2015th Edition
by Robert E. Keane (Author) A new era in wildland fuel sciences is now evolving in such a way that fire scientists and managers need a comprehensive understanding of fuels ecology and science to fully understand fire effects and behavior on diverse ecosystem and landscape characteristics. This is a reference book on wildland fuel science; a book that describes fuels and their application in land management. There has never been a comprehensive book on wildland fuels; most wildland fuel information was put into wildland fire science and management books as separate chapters and sections. This book is the first to highlight wildland fuels and treat them as a natural resource rather than a fire behavior input. Moreover, there has never been a comprehensive description of fuels and their ecology, measurement, and description under one reference; most wildland fuel information is scattered across diverse and unrelated venues from combustion science to fire ecology to carbon dynamics. The literature and data for wildland fuel science has never been synthesized into one reference; most studies were done for diverse and unique objectives. This book is the first to link the disparate fields of ecology, wildland fire, and carbon to describe fuel science. This just deals with the science and ecology of wildland fuels, not fuels management. However, since expensive fuel treatments are being planned in fire dominated landscapes across the world to minimize fire damage to people, property and ecosystems, it is incredibly important that people understand wildland fuels to develop more effective fuel management activities.
Wildlife Management in Savannah Woodland: Recent Progress in African Studies
Hardcover – December 31, 1979
by S. S. Ajayi (Author), Lambert Beverley Halstead (Author)
Hardcover – December 31, 1979
by S. S. Ajayi (Author), Lambert Beverley Halstead (Author)
Wildlife, Fire and Future Climate: A Forest Ecosystem Analysis
Paperback – July 1, 2002
by Brendan Mackey (Editor), David Lindenmayer (Editor), Malcolm Gill (Editor), Michael McCarthy (Editor), Janette Lindesay (Editor)
The conservation of Earth's forest ecosystems is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. All of Earth's ecosystems now face the spectre of the accelerated greenhouse effect and rates of change in climatic regimes that have hitherto been unknown. In addition, multiple use forestry – where forests are managed to provide for both a supply of wood and the conservation of biodiversity – can change the floristic composition and vegetation structure of forests with significant implications for wildlife habitat. Wildlife, fire and future climate: a forest ecosystem analysis explores these themes through a landscape-wide study of refugia and future climate in the tall, wet forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria. It represents a model case study for the kind of integrated investigation needed throughout the world in order to deal with the potential response of terrestrial ecological systems to global change. The analyses presented in this book represent one of the few ecosystem studies ever undertaken that has attempted such a complex synthesis of fire, wildlife, vegetation, and climate. Wildlife, fire and future climate: a forest ecosystem analysis is written by an experienced team of leading world experts in fire ecology, modelling, terrain and climate analysis, vegetation and wildlife habitat. Their collaboration on this book represents a unique and exemplary, multi-disciplinary venture.Paperback – July 1, 2002
by Brendan Mackey (Editor), David Lindenmayer (Editor), Malcolm Gill (Editor), Michael McCarthy (Editor), Janette Lindesay (Editor)
The conservation of Earth's forest ecosystems is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. All of Earth's ecosystems now face the spectre of the accelerated greenhouse effect and rates of change in climatic regimes that have hitherto been unknown. In addition, multiple use forestry – where forests are managed to provide for both a supply of wood and the conservation of biodiversity – can change the floristic composition and vegetation structure of forests with significant implications for wildlife habitat. Wildlife, fire and future climate: a forest ecosystem analysis explores these themes through a landscape-wide study of refugia and future climate in the tall, wet forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria. It represents a model case study for the kind of integrated investigation needed throughout the world in order to deal with the potential response of terrestrial ecological systems to global change. The analyses presented in this book represent one of the few ecosystem studies ever undertaken that has attempted such a complex synthesis of fire, wildlife, vegetation, and climate. Wildlife, fire and future climate: a forest ecosystem analysis is written by an experienced team of leading world experts in fire ecology, modelling, terrain and climate analysis, vegetation and wildlife habitat. Their collaboration on this book represents a unique and exemplary, multi-disciplinary venture.
Wood Combustion
Wood Combustion: Principles, Processes, and Economics
Woodsburner
Paperback – May 4, 2010
by John Pipkin(Author)
Set against the backdrop of a devastating forest fire that Henry David Thoreau accidentally set in 1844, John Pipkin's novel brilliantly illuminates the mind of the young philosopher at a formative moment in his life and in the life of the young nation. The Thoreau of Woodsburner is a lost soul, resigned to a career designing pencils for his father's factory while dreaming of better things. On the day of the fire, his path crosses those of three very different people, each of whom also harbors a secret dream. Oddmund Hus, a shy Norwegian farmhand, pines for the wife of his brutal employer. Eliot Calvert, a prosperous bookseller, is also a hilariously inept aspiring playwright. Caleb Dowdy preaches fire and brimstone to his followers through an opium haze. Each of their lives, like Thoreau's, will be changed forever by the fire.
Paperback – May 4, 2010
by John Pipkin(Author)
Set against the backdrop of a devastating forest fire that Henry David Thoreau accidentally set in 1844, John Pipkin's novel brilliantly illuminates the mind of the young philosopher at a formative moment in his life and in the life of the young nation. The Thoreau of Woodsburner is a lost soul, resigned to a career designing pencils for his father's factory while dreaming of better things. On the day of the fire, his path crosses those of three very different people, each of whom also harbors a secret dream. Oddmund Hus, a shy Norwegian farmhand, pines for the wife of his brutal employer. Eliot Calvert, a prosperous bookseller, is also a hilariously inept aspiring playwright. Caleb Dowdy preaches fire and brimstone to his followers through an opium haze. Each of their lives, like Thoreau's, will be changed forever by the fire.
World Disasters Fire
World Fire: The Culture of Fire on Earth
Hardcover – March 1, 1995
by Stephen J. Pyne (Author)
Linking the evolution of humankind to humans' control over fire, the author of Burning Bush examines the emerging geography of global fire, the environmental impact of fire in nature, and the role of fire in the regeneration of the natural world.
Hardcover – March 1, 1995
by Stephen J. Pyne (Author)
Linking the evolution of humankind to humans' control over fire, the author of Burning Bush examines the emerging geography of global fire, the environmental impact of fire in nature, and the role of fire in the regeneration of the natural world.
Worst of Days: Inside the black Saturday firestorm
Kindle Edition
by Karen Kissane (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
Saturday, 7 February 2009. Truly the worst of days? From dawn, the bush was tinder dry, and hot winds grew and fed off the baked landscape, sucking out every last drop of moisture, whipping sparks from power lines, and stirring up menace and danger. WORST OF DAYS is the behind-the-scenes story of the people who were inside Black Saturday's most deadly firestorm, the Kilmore blaze. It is a powerful and gripping narrative of disaster and resilience, of men and women and children facing the ultimate stress. This is the story of what we do at the very worst of times: from the man who braved the flames to help a mate, to another who refused even to cover the face of a dead man, saying, 'No mate, not my job.' It is the story of officials' bungles and best efforts, towns and their heroes, of survivors, saviours and lost souls.
Kindle Edition
by Karen Kissane (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
Saturday, 7 February 2009. Truly the worst of days? From dawn, the bush was tinder dry, and hot winds grew and fed off the baked landscape, sucking out every last drop of moisture, whipping sparks from power lines, and stirring up menace and danger. WORST OF DAYS is the behind-the-scenes story of the people who were inside Black Saturday's most deadly firestorm, the Kilmore blaze. It is a powerful and gripping narrative of disaster and resilience, of men and women and children facing the ultimate stress. This is the story of what we do at the very worst of times: from the man who braved the flames to help a mate, to another who refused even to cover the face of a dead man, saying, 'No mate, not my job.' It is the story of officials' bungles and best efforts, towns and their heroes, of survivors, saviours and lost souls.
Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910
Hardcover – May 7, 2001
by Stephen J. Pyne (Author)
The chilling story of the most important firefighting effort in American history describes the disastrous 1910 season, as wildfires swept across Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and Montana, claiming lives, towns, and mining camps, and illustrates the larger story of how American bureaucracies, railroads, political scandal, pioneering, and ideas collide with nature. 15,000 first printing.
Hardcover – May 7, 2001
by Stephen J. Pyne (Author)
The chilling story of the most important firefighting effort in American history describes the disastrous 1910 season, as wildfires swept across Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and Montana, claiming lives, towns, and mining camps, and illustrates the larger story of how American bureaucracies, railroads, political scandal, pioneering, and ideas collide with nature. 15,000 first printing.
Yellowstone & the Fires of Change
1st Edition
by George Wuerthner (Author)
Study of the 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park. The 1988 Yellowstone fires were the largest and most extensive in the Park's 116-year history and focused the Nation's attention on the country's first national park and the sometimes unstoppable power of nature, illustrated in color.
1st Edition
by George Wuerthner (Author)
Study of the 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park. The 1988 Yellowstone fires were the largest and most extensive in the Park's 116-year history and focused the Nation's attention on the country's first national park and the sometimes unstoppable power of nature, illustrated in color.
Yellowstone Ecology: A Road Guide
Paperback – May 1, 1992
Paperback – May 1, 1992
Yellowstone Hellfire: A Disaster Thriller (The Yellowstone Series Book 1)
Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
Bobby Akart (Author), Chris Abernathy (Narrator), Bobby Akart Inc. (Publisher)
Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
Bobby Akart (Author), Chris Abernathy (Narrator), Bobby Akart Inc. (Publisher)
Yellowstone Inferno: A Disaster Thriller (The Yellowstone Series Book 2)
Kindle Edition
by Bobby Akart (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
Civilization exists by geologic consent, subject to change without notice. The land beneath Yellowstone's caldera is hot. Huffing and puffing. Moving, stretching and bulging. Everything has a boiling point. Yellowstone has reached the point of no return.
"Take some deep breaths before you start this one, because you will need the extra oxygen." The Yellowstone Series, a disaster thriller from international bestselling author, Bobby Akart, takes the reader on a thrill ride as a cataclysmic event of extinction level proportions ticks away like a time bomb, awaiting its moment. Millions of people visit the Yellowstone National Park every year blissfully unaware they are on top of the greatest killer man has ever known - the Yellowstone Supervolcano. "Be it prophesy or good story telling, the author has once again brought us a masterpiece of horror.". Volcanoes are the Earth's way of letting off steam. Deep beneath the surface of the planet, excess heat builds up, and it seeks a way to vent. Like an overcrowded bus on a sweltering summer day, the overheated magma stews in its own madness, eventually allowing pent-up frustrations to boil over until it releases its fury - its Inferno - upon the world above. Yellowstone is not an ordinary volcano. It is an extraordinary killer that will show itself in due time. The eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano will be more than a spectacle to grab our attention. It will be the end of the world as we know it. ABOUT THE YELLOWSTONE SERIES Volcanoes are the Earth's way of letting off steam. While most people look at volcanic eruptions as natural disasters, the fact of the matter is, without them, the Earth would explode. Deep beneath the surface of the planet, excess heat builds up, finding a way to vent. Like an overcrowded bus on a hot summer day, the overheated magma stews in its own madness, allowing pent-up frustrations to boil over, until it releases its fury - its HELLFIRE - upon the world above. Yellowstone is the most potentially explosive, violent, deadly, active volcano on our planet and scientists agree, a catastrophic eruption is inevitable. Yellowstone is extraordinary in its potential and is quite simply, Earth's greatest killer. You've been warned. BOOKS IN THE YELLOWSTONE SERIES Book One: Hellfire Book Two: Inferno Book Three: Fallout Book Four: SurvivalKindle Edition
by Bobby Akart (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
Civilization exists by geologic consent, subject to change without notice. The land beneath Yellowstone's caldera is hot. Huffing and puffing. Moving, stretching and bulging. Everything has a boiling point. Yellowstone has reached the point of no return.
"Take some deep breaths before you start this one, because you will need the extra oxygen." The Yellowstone Series, a disaster thriller from international bestselling author, Bobby Akart, takes the reader on a thrill ride as a cataclysmic event of extinction level proportions ticks away like a time bomb, awaiting its moment. Millions of people visit the Yellowstone National Park every year blissfully unaware they are on top of the greatest killer man has ever known - the Yellowstone Supervolcano. "Be it prophesy or good story telling, the author has once again brought us a masterpiece of horror.". Volcanoes are the Earth's way of letting off steam. Deep beneath the surface of the planet, excess heat builds up, and it seeks a way to vent. Like an overcrowded bus on a sweltering summer day, the overheated magma stews in its own madness, eventually allowing pent-up frustrations to boil over until it releases its fury - its Inferno - upon the world above. Yellowstone is not an ordinary volcano. It is an extraordinary killer that will show itself in due time. The eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano will be more than a spectacle to grab our attention. It will be the end of the world as we know it. ABOUT THE YELLOWSTONE SERIES Volcanoes are the Earth's way of letting off steam. While most people look at volcanic eruptions as natural disasters, the fact of the matter is, without them, the Earth would explode. Deep beneath the surface of the planet, excess heat builds up, finding a way to vent. Like an overcrowded bus on a hot summer day, the overheated magma stews in its own madness, allowing pent-up frustrations to boil over, until it releases its fury - its HELLFIRE - upon the world above. Yellowstone is the most potentially explosive, violent, deadly, active volcano on our planet and scientists agree, a catastrophic eruption is inevitable. Yellowstone is extraordinary in its potential and is quite simply, Earth's greatest killer. You've been warned. BOOKS IN THE YELLOWSTONE SERIES Book One: Hellfire Book Two: Inferno Book Three: Fallout Book Four: Survival
Yellowstone Vegetation
Yellowstone's Cycle of Fire (A Carolrhoda Earth Watch Book)
Library Binding – January 1, 1994
by Frank J. Staub (Author)
Recalls the devastating fires that swept through Yellowstone National Park in 1988 and analyzes the process of recovery and the park's amazing ability to renew itself in the aftermath of such a disaster.
Library Binding – January 1, 1994
by Frank J. Staub (Author)
Recalls the devastating fires that swept through Yellowstone National Park in 1988 and analyzes the process of recovery and the park's amazing ability to renew itself in the aftermath of such a disaster.
Yellowstone's Rebirth by Fire: Rising from the Ashes of the 1988 Wildfires
Paperback – May 1, 2008
by Karen Wildung Reinhart (Author)
This landmark new book features 93 photos from the historic 1988 Yellowstone fires, dramatic accounts from those on the front lines, and the remarkable story of Yellowstone's rebirth as blackened mountainsides have given way to green stands of lodgepole pine and aspen.
Featuring a detailed timeline of the fires, including 7 maps showing the explosive growth of the blazes, Yellowstone's Rebirth by Fire, dispels myths about fire and discusses its history and legacy in the park. Visit FarcountryPress.com for more information.Paperback – May 1, 2008
by Karen Wildung Reinhart (Author)
This landmark new book features 93 photos from the historic 1988 Yellowstone fires, dramatic accounts from those on the front lines, and the remarkable story of Yellowstone's rebirth as blackened mountainsides have given way to green stands of lodgepole pine and aspen.
Featuring a detailed timeline of the fires, including 7 maps showing the explosive growth of the blazes, Yellowstone's Rebirth by Fire, dispels myths about fire and discusses its history and legacy in the park. Visit FarcountryPress.com for more information.
Young Men and Fire: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
Paperback – Illustrated, May 1, 2017
by Norman Maclean (Author), Timothy Egan (Foreword)
A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service’s elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of the men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy in Young Men and Fire, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Alongside Maclean’s now-canonical A River Runs through It and Other Stories, Young Men and Fire is recognized today as a classic of the American West. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Maclean’s later triumph—the last book he would write—includes a powerful new foreword by Timothy Egan, author of The Big Burn and The Worst Hard Time. As moving and profound as when it was first published, Young Men and Fire honors the literary legacy of a man who gave voice to an essential corner of the American soul.Paperback – Illustrated, May 1, 2017
by Norman Maclean (Author), Timothy Egan (Foreword)
A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service’s elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of the men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy in Young Men and Fire, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Alongside Maclean’s now-canonical A River Runs through It and Other Stories, Young Men and Fire is recognized today as a classic of the American West. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Maclean’s later triumph—the last book he would write—includes a powerful new foreword by Timothy Egan, author of The Big Burn and The Worst Hard Time. As moving and profound as when it was first published, Young Men and Fire honors the literary legacy of a man who gave voice to an essential corner of the American soul.