Forests In Trouble

Author : Daniel Mathews
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781640094666

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Trees in Trouble by Daniel Mathews Pdf

A troubling story of the devastating and compounding effects of climate change in the Western and Rocky Mountain states, told through in–depth reportage and conversations with ecologists, professional forest managers, park service scientists, burn boss, activists, and more. Climate change manifests in many ways across North America, but few as dramatic as the attacks on our western pine forests. In Trees in Trouble, Daniel Mathews tells the urgent story of this loss, accompanying burn crews and forest ecologists as they study the myriad risk factors and refine techniques for saving this important, limited resource. Mathews transports the reader from the exquisitely aromatic haze of ponderosa and Jeffrey pine groves to the fantastic gnarls and whorls of five–thousand–year–old bristlecone pines, from genetic test nurseries where white pine seedlings are deliberately infected with their mortal enemy to the hottest megafire sites and neighborhoods leveled by fire tornadoes or ember blizzards. Scrupulously researched, Trees in Trouble not only explores the devastating ripple effects of climate change, but also introduces us to the people devoting their lives to saving our forests. Mathews also offers hope: a new approach to managing western pine forests is underway. Trees in Trouble explores how we might succeed in sustaining our forests through the challenging transition to a new environment.

Author : Nigel Dudley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Deforestation
ISBN : UOM:39015038997113

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Forests in Trouble by Nigel Dudley Pdf

Author : Richard Widick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015084116071

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Trouble in the Forest by Richard Widick Pdf

Wars over natural resources have been fiercely fought in the Humboldt Bay redwood region of Northern California, a situation made devastatingly urgent in recent decades of timber war that raised questions of economic sustainability and ecological preservation. In Trouble in the Forest, Richard Widick narrates the long and bloody history of this hostility and demonstrates how it exemplifies the key contemporary challenge facing the modern societies-the collision of capitalism, ecology, and social justice. An innovative blend of social history, cultural theory, and ethnography, Trouble in the Forest traces the origins of the redwood conflict to the same engines of modernity that drove the region's colonial violence against American Indians and its labor struggles during the industrial revolution. Widick describes in vivid detail the infamous fight that ensued when Maxxam Inc. started clearing ancient forests in Humboldt after acquiring the Pacific Lumber Company in 1985, but he also reaches further back and investigates the local Indian clashes and labor troubles that set the conditions of the timber wars. Seizing on public flash points of each confrontation-including the massacre of Wiyot on Indian Island in 1860, the machine-gunning of redwood strikers by police and company thugs during the great lumber strike of 1935, and the car bombing of forest defenders in 1990-Widick maps how the landscape has registered the impact of this epochal struggle, and how the timber wars embody the forces of market capitalism, free speech, and liberal government. Showing how events such as an Indian massacre and the death of a protester at the hands of a logger create the social memory and culture of timber production and environmental resistance now emblematic of Northern California's redwood region, Trouble in the Forest ultimately argues that the modern social imaginary produced a perpetual conflict over property that fueled the timber wars as it pushed toward the western frontier: first property in land, then in labor, and now in environment.

Author : William Nikolakis,John L. Innes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108471404

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The Wicked Problem of Forest Policy by William Nikolakis,John L. Innes Pdf

Provides a global analysis of policies to address deforestation, an important driver of climate change.

Author : Melissa Koch
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books ™
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541552517

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Forest Talk by Melissa Koch Pdf

Trees are essential. They provide water, shelter, and food for millions of plant and animal species, including humans. They deliver proven health benefits, and they capture and store carbon, which combats climate change. Yet trees are in trouble. Forests are struggling to adapt to climate change, and deforestation is a major threat. Recently, researchers and citizen scientists made the surprising revelation that trees communicate with each other through an underground system of soil fungi and other methods. Complex social networks help trees survive and thrive by transferring resources to each other, sending defense signals, communicating with their kin, and more. Meet the tree scientists and learn more of their fascinating discoveries.

Author : Bruce A. Shindler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Forest management
ISBN : MINN:31951D02960118P

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Social Acceptability of Forest Conditions and Management Practices by Bruce A. Shindler Pdf

Author : Emilio Chuvieco
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789812385697

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Wildland Fire Danger by Emilio Chuvieco Pdf

The book presents a wide range of techniques for extracting information from satellite remote sensing images in forest fire danger assessment. It covers the main concepts involved in fire danger rating, and analyses the inputs derived from remotely sensed data for mapping fire danger at both the local and global scale. The questions addressed concern the estimation of fuel moisture content, the description of fuel structural properties, the estimation of meteorological danger indices, the analysis of human factors associated with fire ignition, and the integration of different risk factors in a geographic information system for fire danger management.

Author : Andrew Delmar Hopkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Dendroctonus simplex
ISBN : UOM:39015007524955

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Preliminary Report on the Insect Enemies of Forests in the Northwest by Andrew Delmar Hopkins Pdf

Author : David L. Adams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351465526

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Assessing Forest Ecosystem Health in the Inland West by David L. Adams Pdf

Inland West, their historical origins, assessments of available management tools, and analyses of the various choices available to policymakers. Its goal is to help people understand the Inland West forests so that public policies can reflect a constructive and realistic framework in which forests can be managed for sustained health. This resource is the product of a scientific workshop where 35 participants, including scientists, resource managers, administrators, and environmentalists, addressed the forest health problem in the Inland West. Synthesis chapters integrate the diverse knowledge and experience which participants brought to the workshop. They identify and link together many of the ecological, social, and administrative conditions which have created the forest health problem in the West. The book is unique in that it reflects a process that fostered the use of academic research, field realities, and industrial knowledge to define an interdisciplinary problem, establish rational policy objectives, and set-up “do-able” management approaches. The following topics are analyzed: Assessing forest ecosystem health in the Inland West Historical and anticipated changes in forest ecosystems in the Inland West Defining and measuring forest health Historical range of variability as a tool for evaluating ecosystem change Administrative barriers to implementing forest health problems Economic and social dimensions of the forest health problem Fire management Ecosystem and landscape management

Author : United States. Forest Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Forest reserves
ISBN : UFL:31262087127402

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Telephone Construction and Maintenance on the National Forests by United States. Forest Service Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780271047287

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A Century of Forest Resources Education at Penn State: Serving Our Forests, Waters, Wildlife, and Wood Industries by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Lands and Surveys. Subcommittee on S. Res. 347
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1522 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Forest reserves
ISBN : LOC:00031506645

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National Forests and the Public Domain by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Lands and Surveys. Subcommittee on S. Res. 347 Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Lands and Surveys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1498 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Forest reserves
ISBN : UOM:39015067215387

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National Forests and the Public Domain by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Lands and Surveys Pdf

Author : Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies
Publisher : Fredericton, N.B. : Published for the Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies by Acadiensis Press,$c1992.
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008652641

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Trouble in the Woods by Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Lands and Surveys. Subcommittee on S. Res. 347
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1502 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Forest reserves
ISBN : LOC:0003150692A

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National Forests and the Public Domain: Hearing, April 23, 1925 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Lands and Surveys. Subcommittee on S. Res. 347 Pdf