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Wildfire Damages To Homes And Resources
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Author : Kelsi Bracmort
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2013-07
Wildfire Damages To Homes And Resources written by Kelsi Bracmort and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07 with Nature categories.
Wildfires are getting more severe, with more acres and houses burned and more people at risk. This results from excess biomass in the forests, due to past logging and grazing and a century of fire suppression, combined with an expanding wildland-urban interface—more people and houses in and near the forests—and climate change, exacerbating drought and insect and disease problems. Some assert that current efforts to protect houses and to reduce biomass (through fuel treatments, such as thinning) are inadequate, and that public objections to some of these activities on federal lands raise costs and delay action. Others counter that proposals for federal lands allow timber harvesting with substantial environmental damage and little fire protection. Congress is addressing these issues through various legislative proposals and through funding for protection programs. Wildfires are inevitable—biomass, dry conditions, and lightning create fires. Some are surface fires, which burn needles, grasses, and other fine fuels and leave most trees alive. Others are crown fires, which are typically driven by high winds and burn biomass at all levels from the ground through the tree tops. Many wildfires contain areas of both surface and crown fires. Surface fires are relatively easy to control, but crown fires are difficult, if not impossible, to stop; often, crown fires burn until they run out of fuel or the weather changes. Homes can be ignited by direct contact with fire, by radiative heating, and by firebrands (burning materials lifted by the wind or the fire's own convection column). Protection of homes must address all three. Research has identified the keys to protecting structures: having a nonflammable roof; clearing burnable materials that abut the house (e.g., plants, flammable mulch, woodpiles, wooden decks); and landscaping to create a defensible space around the structure. Wildland and resource damages from fire vary widely, depending on the nature of the ecosystem as well as on site-specific conditions. Surface fire ecosystems, which burn on 5- to 35-year cycles, can be damaged by crown fires due to unnatural fuel accumulations and fuel ladders (small trees and dense undergrowth); fuel treatments probably prevent some crown fires in such ecosystems. Stand-replacement fire ecosystems are those where crown fires are natural and the species are adapted to periodic crown fires; fuel treatments are unlikely to alter the historic fire regime of such ecosystems. In mixed-intensity fire ecosystems, where a mix of surface and crown fires is historically normal, it is unclear whether fuel treatments would alter wildfire patterns. Prescribed burning (intentional fires) and mechanical treatments (cutting and removing some trees) can reduce resource damages caused by wildfires in some ecosystems. However, prescribed fires are risky, mechanical treatments can cause other ecological damages, and both are expensive. Proponents of more treatment advocate expedited processes for environmental and public review of projects to hasten action and cut costs, but others caution that inadequate review can allow unintended damages with few fire protection benefits.
Wildfire Damages To Homes And Resources
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Author : Ross W. Gorte
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Wildfire Damages To Homes And Resources written by Ross W. Gorte and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Forest fires categories.
Wildfire Damages To Homes And Resources
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Author : Ross W. Gorte
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Wildfire Damages To Homes And Resources written by Ross W. Gorte and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Forest fires categories.
A Guide To The Appraisal Of Wildfire Damages Benefits And Resource Values Protected
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Author : John S. Crosby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
A Guide To The Appraisal Of Wildfire Damages Benefits And Resource Values Protected written by John S. Crosby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Fire ecology categories.
Interim Hearing On Wildland Fire Protection
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Author : California. Legislature. Assembly. Natural Resources Committee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Interim Hearing On Wildland Fire Protection written by California. Legislature. Assembly. Natural Resources Committee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Forest fires categories.
Penalties For Violation Of Public Land Fire Regulations Resulting In Property Damage
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Penalties For Violation Of Public Land Fire Regulations Resulting In Property Damage written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Fire prevention categories.
Recovering From The Fires
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Recovering From The Fires written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Nature categories.
Protecting People And Homes From Wildfire In The Interior West
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Protecting People And Homes From Wildfire In The Interior West written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Dwellings categories.
A Cohesive Strategy Is Needed To Address Catastrophic Wildfire Threats
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
A Cohesive Strategy Is Needed To Address Catastrophic Wildfire Threats written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Nature categories.
Wildfires
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Author : Jeremy V. Linton
language : en
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Release Date : 2004
Wildfires written by Jeremy V. Linton and has been published by Nova Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The 2000 and 2002 fire seasons were, by most standards, among the worst in the past. Many argue that the threat of severe wildfires has grown, because of unnaturally high fuel loads (e.g., dense undergrowth undergrown and dead trees), raising concerns about damage to property and homes in the 'wildland-urban interface' (WUI) -- homes in or near forests. Debates about fire control and protection, including funding and fuel treatment (e.g., thinning and prescribed burning), have focused on national forests and other federal lands, but nonfederal lands are also at risk. This new book explores the latest issues dealing with wildfires, the consequences that they sow and what means are being used to prevent and protect the environment and the local populations. CONTENTS: Preface; Wildfire Protection: Legislation in the 107th Congress (Ross W. Gorte); Wildfire Protection in the 108th Congress (Ross W. Gorte); Timber Harvesting and Forest Fires (Ross W. Gorte); Forest Fire Protection (Ross W. Gorte); Forest Fires and Forest Health (Ross W. Gorte); Managing the Impact of Wildfires on Communities and the Environment (A Report to the President); Forest Fire/Wildfire Protection (Ross W. Gorte)