The area is home to remarkable landscapes, rock formations, flora and fauna that were recorded by the…
On August 5, 1949, a wildfire overran 16 smokejumpers and firefighters in Mann Gulch on the Helena National Forest in Montana. The fire was most likely started by lightning from a thunderstorm. It was noticed promptly by rangers, who dispatched 16 smokejumpers, under the command of Wagner Dodge. Thought to be much smaller than it actually was, the fire quickly grew large and out of control, covering 3000 acres in 10 minutes during its blow up stage. Upon approaching Mann Gulch, the crew noticed the fire had already crossed onto their side of the gulch. Seeing the extreme danger in this, the order to retreat back up the slope was given and the men moved up the hill. Dodge later gave the order for the men to drop their pack…
The Eagle Creek Fire is a wildfire in the Columbia river gorge, across Oregon and Washington and has burned hundreds of thousands of acres and has risked people's lives and pets. Millions of your taxpayer dollars have been spent to try and stop this fire, along with many people risking their lives to stop it.…
The heterogeneous topography of the region, working in unison with inland high and coastal low pressure cells, generate winds that can measure up to 100 km/h. Winds of this speed alter humidity in a way that increases susceptibility of vegetation to fire ignition. Furthermore, the winds are strong enough to cause power lines to arc, ejecting molten material that easily ignite dry plant fuels. Thus, the source of ignition and the increased amount of ignition events, both directly and indirectly caused by humans, are a significant change to the historic regime aside from a gradually warming…
Sep. 4, 2013 — A recent study of one of California's most devastating wildland fires by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) strongly suggests that measures for reducing structural damage and property loss from wildland urban interface (WUI) fires are most effective when they are based on accurate assessments of exposure risks both for individual structures and the community as a whole.…
Containing nearly two-thirds of Ontario’s forest, the Boreal Forest is quite large and diverse. Forest fires are a frequent occurrence in the Boreal Forest. Because of this, the Boreal Forest ecosystem depends on the fires as it is crucial to sustaining the ecosystem. The fires have become frequent enough that “Boreal Forest tree species and ecosystems are adapted to the periodic passage of fire and some would disappear as natural components of the landscape in the absence of fire” (Weber 1998). Selected conifer species include, “black and white spruce, jack pine, balsam fir, tamarack and eastern white cedar” (MNR 2014),as…
In a forests life, the process of a fire starting and destroying the trees and underbrush in a forest is an important cycle. It helps to improve the life span of the vegetation and animals living in it. With the rise in wildfires all over the country, researchers say that controlled burns will help reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires. Many people think of fire as only being dangerous and destructive to the environment, these beliefs are inaccurate but, not entirely wrong, while fire does destroy things to the eye and pollutes the air; it is also feeding the forest.…
bushfire education is to be truly effective it must be able to reach not only those that are…
Huber UM, Matkgraf V (2003) European impact on fire regimes and vegetation dynamics at the steppe-forest ecotone of southern Patagonia. The Holocene 13(4), 567-579.…
On 7 February, 2009, the state of Victoria in Australia experienced its worst ever bushfires on record with more than 700 fires burning on one day. This year bushfires will continue to spark up during the hot summer months, and as a new resident to Victoria it is important you have a bushfire action plan in place just in case fires move to the area where you live. Bushfires that are not in your immediate vicinity can cause discomfort to your family because of the ash and smoke in the air, however, your home air conditioning system can make life a little more comfortable for those inside your home. Here's what you need to know about using your air conditioner when bushfires are making their presence known.…
As we all have read the story of A Rose for Emily, I decided to choose the story, Barn Burning, written by the same author, William Faulkner for my analysis paper. The story opens with a scene in the court, where vice and guilt filled the air. The other story I am going to compare with Barn Burning is Death by Landscape. These two stories are seemingly unrelated, yet if you take a deeper look at them, there are still quite a few things in common.…
Fire: Australia has become a drier land. Arid areas increased the incident of naturally occurring bush fires. Fire has saw some areas replaced with grasslands replacing lush understory such as ferns and a general thinning out of woodlands and the replacement of fire hardy trees. Certain plant species have adapted so much to the fire cycle, that their seeds only get a chance to germinate…
On August 19, 1910 the Big Burn in the Rocky Moutains began, recorded as the largest and most destrustive fire, in North America. At the time the United States fire service was only five years old, with very little experience and preparation to handle such a large forest fire. It destroys an area the size of Connecticut within a matter of 36 hours, equaling more than three-million acres of forest, and $1 billion worth lost in timber. There were atleast 78 firefighter fatalities, however it is unknown how many more died soon afterwards, due to the effects of smoke inhalation and other long term side effects. During that summer the weather was extremely dry, and without any rain for 3 months many small sparatic fires began to appear, quickly growing with all the available dried fuel.…
If most wildfires occur in the boreal forests of Canada, understanding of our biggest vegetation region is crucial to extinguishing…
Let’s get back to the wildfires. Apparently, fire destroys a large area of forest and any houses that close to the forest. As a result, these people lost their homes, and animals lost their lives, ecological imbalance, trees, and plants burned down, which cause the animals live there no longer have food to eat. When the forest has fewer trees and plants, it produces less oxygen. Therefore, we will have less clean air to breathe. Furthermore, as large amounts of smoke are released into the air, it causes air pollution, and difficult for us to breathe. Besides, smoke and ash can cause serious health problems for people, such as damage the throat, and the lungs. We also face the loss of animals, which might create extinction for some animals and other creatures in the forest. Naturally, the wildfires are happened because of hot, and dry weathers make the forest more likely to burn. As it starts to burn, we can not recognize it until it becomes big. Therefore, we will not be able to extinguish it in time. And if there is a strong wind at this time, it will make the fire spread…