Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1980-07
Category : Forest fires
ISBN : UCBK:C044526274
Forest Fire News
Anonim
Forest Fire News
Forest Fire News Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Forest Fire News book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
The Wildfire Reader
George Wuerthner
Author : George Wuerthner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822035271535
The Wildfire Reader by George Wuerthner Pdf
The Wildfire Reader presents, in an affordable paperback edition, the essays included in Wildfire, offering a concise overview of fire landscapes and the past century of forest policy that has affected them.
Firestorm
Edward Struzik
Author : Edward Struzik
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781610918183
Firestorm by Edward Struzik Pdf
"Frightening...Firestorm comes alive when Struzik discusses the work of offbeat scientists." --New York Times Book Review "Comprehensive and compelling." --Booklist "A powerful message." --Kirkus "Should be required reading." --Library Journal In the spring of 2016, the world watched as wildfire ravaged the Canadian town of Fort McMurray. Firefighters named the fire "the Beast." It seemed to be alive with destructive energy, and they hoped never to see anything like it again. Yet it's not a stretch to imagine we will all soon live in a world in which fires like the Beast are commonplace. In Firestorm, Edward Struzik confronts this new reality, offering a deftly woven tale of science, economics, politics, and human determination. It's possible for us to flourish in the coming age of megafires--but it will take a radical new approach that requires acknowledging that fires are no longer avoidable. 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.
The Miramichi Fire
Alan MacEachern
Author : Alan MacEachern
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228002840
The Miramichi Fire by Alan MacEachern Pdf
On 7 October 1825, a massive forest fire swept through northeastern New Brunswick, devastating entire communities. When the smoke cleared, it was estimated that the fire had burned across six thousand square miles, one-fifth of the colony. The Miramichi Fire was the largest wildfire ever to occur within the British Empire, one of the largest in North American history, and the largest along the eastern seaboard. Yet despite the international attention and relief efforts it generated, and the ruin it left behind, the fire all but disappeared from public memory by the twentieth century. A masterwork in historical imagination, The Miramichi Fire vividly reconstructs nineteenth-century Canada's greatest natural disaster, meditating on how it was lost to history. First and foremost an environmental history, the book examines the fire in the context of the changing relationships between humans and nature in colonial British North America and New England, while also exploring social memory and the question of how history becomes established, warped, and forgotten. Alan MacEachern explains how the imprecise and conflicting early reports of the fire's range, along with the quick rebound of the forests and economy of New Brunswick, led commentators to believe by the early 1900s that the fire's destruction had been greatly exaggerated. As an exercise in digital history, this book takes advantage of the proliferation of online tools and sources in the twenty-first century to posit an entirely new reading of the past. Resurrecting one of Canada's most famous and yet unexamined natural disasters, The Miramichi Fire traverses a wide range of historical and scientific literatures to bring a more complete story into the light.
First Nations Wildfire Evacuations
Tara K. McGee,Amy Cardinal Christianson,First Nations Wildfire Evacuation Partnership
Author : Tara K. McGee,Amy Cardinal Christianson,First Nations Wildfire Evacuation Partnership
Publisher : Purich Books
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774880688
First Nations Wildfire Evacuations by Tara K. McGee,Amy Cardinal Christianson,First Nations Wildfire Evacuation Partnership Pdf
Nearly one-third of wildfire evacuations in Canada involve Indigenous communities. While evacuations are carried out to protect people from smoke and flames, deciding to leave brings its own challenges. Based on interviews with evacuees from seven First Nations, this book outlines how Indigenous communities and external organizations can best prepare for the different stages of a wildfire evacuation, including: deciding when to leave putting a plan in motion troubleshooting transportation finding accommodation caring for evacuees returning home. With climate change increasing the likelihood of wildfires around the world, this book is an invaluable resource for any community at risk from fire.
Fire Management Today
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Forest fires
ISBN : UFL:31262081380874
Fire Management Today by Anonim Pdf
Canadian Wildland Fire Strategy
Peter L. Fuglem,Kelvin G. Hirsch,Canadian Council of Forest Ministers
Author : Peter L. Fuglem,Kelvin G. Hirsch,Canadian Council of Forest Ministers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fire management
ISBN : UIUC:30112075587946
Canadian Wildland Fire Strategy by Peter L. Fuglem,Kelvin G. Hirsch,Canadian Council of Forest Ministers Pdf
"In September 2004, the Canadian Council of Forest Ministers established a federal, provincial, and territorial task group of assistant deputy ministers (ADMs) and commissioned the development of the Canadian Wildland Fire Strategy (CWFS). The ADMs created an intergovernmental team of analysts, experienced fire managers, and researchers, known as the CWFS Core Team, to consult with Canadian and international experts, collate information, conduct analyses, and present the findings. This team was directed to assess the current state of wildland fire management in Canada, examine the key influences and trends, and identify possible desired future states and how they could be achieved. This publication comprises a collection of nine reports written by the CWFS Core Team members and their associates. Collectively these papers include syntheses, analyses, and perspective articles that address a variety of the social, economic, and biophysical aspects of wildland fire and its management as well as policy, science, and operational issues in Canada."--Pub. desc.
Awful Splendour
Stephen J. Pyne
Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780774840279
Awful Splendour by Stephen J. Pyne Pdf
Fire is a defining element in Canadian land and life. With few exceptions, Canada's forests and prairies have evolved with fire. Its peoples have exploited fire and sought to protect themselves from its excesses, and since Confederation, the country has devised various institutions to connect fire and society. The choices Canadians have made says a great deal about their national character. Awful Splendour narrates the history of this grand saga. It will interest geographers, historians, and members of the fire community.
Forest Fire News
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1984-07
Category : Forest fires
ISBN : UCBK:C044526113
Forest Fire News by Anonim Pdf
Lookout
Trina Moyles
Author : Trina Moyles
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780735279919
Lookout by Trina Moyles Pdf
A page-turning memoir about a young woman's grueling, revelatory summers working alone in a remote lookout tower and her eyewitness account of the increasingly unpredictable nature of wildfire in the Canadian north. While growing up in Peace River, Alberta, Trina Moyles heard many stories of Lookout Observers--strange, eccentric types who spent five-month summers alone, climbing 100-foot high towers and watching for signs of fire in the surrounding boreal forest. How could you isolate yourself for that long? she wondered. "I could never do it," she told herself. Craving a deeper sense of purpose, she left northern Alberta to pursue a decade-long career in global humanitarian work. After three years in East Africa, and newly engaged, Trina returned to Peace River with a plan to sponsor her fiance, Akello's, immigration to Canada. Despite her fear of being alone in the woods, she applied for a seasonal lookout position and got the job. Thus begins Trina's first summer as one of a handful of lookouts scattered throughout Alberta, with only a farm dog, Holly--labeled "a domesticated wolf" by her former owners--to keep her company. While searching for smoke, Trina unravels under the pressure of a long-distance relationship--and a dawning awareness of the environmental crisis that climate change is producing in the boreal. Through megafires, lightning storms, and stunning encounters with wildlife, she learns to survive at the fire tower by forging deep connections with nature and with an extraordinary community of people dedicated to wildfire detection and combat. In isolation, she discovers a kind of self-awareness--and freedom--that only solitude can deliver. Lookout is a riveting story of loss, transformation, and belonging to oneself, layered with an eyewitness account of the destructive and regenerative power of wildfire in our northern forests.
British Columbia in Flames
Claudia Cornwall
Author : Claudia Cornwall
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781550178951
British Columbia in Flames by Claudia Cornwall Pdf
Like many British Columbians in 2017, Claudia Cornwall found herself glued to the news about the disastrous wildfires across the province. Her worry was personal: her cabin at Sheridan Lake had been in the family for sixty years and was now in danger of destruction. Cornwall, a long-time writer, was stricken not just by her own experience, but by the many moving stories she came across about the fires—so she began collecting them. She met with people from BC communities of Sheridan Lake, Ashcroft, Cache Creek, 16 Mile House, Lac La Hache, Quesnel, Williams Lake, Hanceville-Riske Creek and Clinton. She hoped to be a conduit for the voices she heard—for those who fought the fires raging around them, those who were evacuated and displaced, and those who could do nothing but watch as their homes burned. She conducted over fifty hours of interviews with ranchers, cottagers, Indigenous residents, RCMP officers, evacuees, store and resort owners, search and rescue volunteers, firefighters and local government officials. Presented in British Columbia in Flames are stories that illustrate the importance of community. During the 2017 wildfires, people looked after strangers who had no place to go. They shared information. They helped each other rescue and shelter animals. They kept stores open day and night to supply gas, food and comfort to evacuees. This memoir, at once journalistic and deeply personal, highlights the strength with which BC communities can and will come together to face a terrifying force of nature.
Wildfire Wars
Keith Keller
Author : Keith Keller
Publisher : Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub.
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1550172786
Wildfire Wars by Keith Keller Pdf
Ten exciting and suspenseful stories about BC's most memorable forest fires, and the firefighters who lived to tell about their battles.
Wildfire
Alianor True
Author : Alianor True
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781559633598
Wildfire by Alianor True Pdf
During the summer of 2000, Americans from coast to coast witnessed the worst fire season in recorded history. Daily news reports brought dramatic images of vast swaths of land going up in smoke, from the mountains of Montana and Wyoming, to the scrublands of Texas, to Los Alamos, New Mexico, where a controlled burn gone awry threatened forests, homes, and even our nation's nuclear secrets. As they have for centuries, wildfires captured our attention and our imagination, reminding us of the power of the natural forces that shape our world. In Wildfire: A Reader nature writer and wildland firefighter Alianor True gathers together for the first time some of the finest stories and essays ever written about wildfire in America. From Mark Twain to Norman Maclean to Edward Abbey, writers featured here depict and record wildfires with remarkable depth and clarity. An ecological perspective is well represented through the works of John Muir, Aldo Leopold, and John McPhee. Ed Engle, Louise Wagenknecht, and Gretchen Yost, firefighters from the front lines, give us exciting first-person perspectives, reliving their on-the-ground encounters with forest fires. The works gathered in Wildfire not only explore the sensory and aesthetic aspects of fire, but also highlight how much attitudes have changed over the past 200 years. From Native Americans who used fire as a tool, to early Americans who viewed it as a frightening and destructive force, to Aldo Leopold and other conservationists whose ideas caused us to rethink the value and role of fire, this rich collection is organized around those shifts in thinking. Capturing the fury and the heat of a raging inferno, or the quiet emergence of wildflowers sprouting from ashes, the writings included in Wildfire represent a vital and compelling addition to the nature writing and natural history bookshelf.
Who Needs a Forest Fire?
Paula Henson
Author : Paula Henson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735721204
Who Needs a Forest Fire? by Paula Henson Pdf
The first people who lived in California did not fight fire. They used it as a tool. After thousands of years of tending the forest floor like a garden, the California Gold Rush of 1849 brought settlers and miners who killed Native Americans and destroyed forest ecosystems. By stopping all fires and not tending the forest floor, conditions were perfect for major wildfires: megafires.
Wildfire Statistics
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Wildfires
ISBN : MINN:30000010174401