Wildfires, Fuels & Invasive Plants

Buch | Hardcover

570 Seiten

2011
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-61728-164-8 (ISBN)

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Severe wildfires have been burning more area and more houses. Some assert that climate change is at least partly to blame; others claim that the increasing number of homes in and near the forest is a major cause. This book explores wildland fires, fuels and non-native invasive plants in our forest ecosystems.

Severe wildfires have been burning more area and more houses in recent years. Some assert that climate change is at least partly to blame; others claim that the increasing number of homes in and near the forest is a major cause. However, most observers agree that wildfire suppression and historic land management practices have led to unnaturally high accumulations of biomass in many forests, primarily in the intermountain West. While high-intensity conflagrations (wildfires that burn the forest canopy) occur naturally in some ecosystems (called crown-fire or stand-replacement fire ecosystems), abnormally high biomass levels can lead to conflagrations in ecosystems when such crown fires were rare. This book explores wildland fires, fuels and non-native invasive plants in our forest ecosystems.

Preface; Wildfire Fuels & Fuel Reduction; Wildland Fire in Ecosystems: Fire & Nonnative Invasive Plants; Prepared Statement for the Record of Philip S. Aune, Retired Forester, Former Research Program Manager, Redding Silviculture Laboratory, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Redding, California, before the Subcommittee on Public Lands & Forests, Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee, U.S. Senate.; Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.2.2011
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	260 x 180 mm
Gewicht	1185 g
Themenwelt	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	1-61728-164-6 / 1617281646
ISBN-13	978-1-61728-164-8 / 9781617281648
Zustand	Neuware