Download or read book A Forest of Fire Limning Materiality and Interpretation in the Morphology of the Longleaf Pine Forest as a Cultural Landscape written by Eric Charles Westbrook and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines the material and interpretive relations imbricated in the Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris) forest as a cultural landscape. Approaching this landscape, I outline and demonstrate the utility of a neo-Sauerian methodology that synthesizes Carl Sauer's (1925) morphological conception of the cultural landscape with more contemporary thinking on cultural landscapes steeped in critical poststructural theory. Human presence has shaped the longleaf forest through time, and the study of its fire regimes and their relationship to cultural fire practices was the origin of fire ecology. Thus, it is necessary to understand the cultural landscape of the longleaf pine forest in terms of both human interpretations and material practices of intervening in its processes. Making this linkage, I attempt to bridge the lacunae between studies in cultural geography that focus on the discourse of the cultural landscape and those that focus on the landscape as a material expression of culture. I model my research on Richard Schein's (1997) conception of landscape as "discourse materialized." Schein's work has emphasized the importance of linking symbolic interpretation and material reality when analyzing the cultural landscape. However, Schein focuses on distinctly human geographies, built environments, and cultivated lands. I extend Schein's work to thinking about the relationship between the interpretative and material practices in creating landscapes that people imagine as natural. Thus, I aim to extend dialogue in the cultural landscape literature beyond the human to understand the forest as a cultural landscape. Doing so, I further emphasize the importance of recognizing that dynamic more-than-human processes, such as fire, play a crucial role in constructing the cultural landscapes of the longleaf pine forest. The morphology of this cultural landscape is the hybrid process of human and more-than-human physical processes on the landscape and the representational interpretations of those morphological landscape processes by vernacular and scientific cultures which guide human interactions with the forest. Empirically developing this argument, in chapter two, I employ a geohumanities lens to examine a work of popular environmental writing, Lawrence Earley's (2004) Looking for Longleaf: The Fall and Rise of an American Forest. Approaching this text, I apply a hermeneutic approach to analyze how ideas of the cultural landscape, and different conceptions of local versions of global authority and value, inform Earley's narrative. Specifically, chapter two shows how Earley's historicization of the longleaf forest presents the destruction of the forest in relation to the imposition of European science and extractive logics. Conversely, he stresses how the construction of the material landscape as a locally knowable object informed distinct cultural practices that maintained its morphology. Chapter three focuses on the history of local scientific discourse and practice in the Red Hills and its relationship to the maintenance of the longleaf forest as a cultural landscape. Specifically, the research and fire ecology conferences associated with Tall Timbers disseminated an understanding of the longleaf forest as a pyrogenic ecosystem, transforming landscape management practices. Chapter three positions these developments as a response to cultural conflicts and change over woodland burning practices and the material effects of those conflicts on the more-than-human cultural landscape of the Red Hills area of the longleaf forest in Southwest Georgia and Northern Florida. This thesis contributes to the research on cultural landscapes as well as the history and geographies of environmental writing, fire science, and forestry. It explores the ways interpretive frames and material human cultural practices intertwine in the material landscape and its biophysical processes. Chapter one outlines the need for new approaches to theorizing and analyzing cultural landscapes. Chapter Two and Three present how the longleaf forest landscape became an object of vernacular and scientific knowledge and how the more-than-human cultural landscape of the Red Hills shaped fire science and conservation research agendas as well as narratives of environmental history. Those chapters demonstrate the utility of a neo-Sauerian methodology in addressing lacunae in the scholarship on cultural landscapes. Furthermore, this thesis adds to the literature examining cultures of science and their geographies, adding to an understanding of the histories and practices of fire science
Download or read book Painting the Landscape with Fire written by Den Latham and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fire can be a destructive, deadly element of nature, capable of obliterating forests, destroying homes, and taking lives. Den Latham's Painting the Landscape with Fire describes this phenomenon but also tells a different story, one that reveals the role of fire ecology in healthy, dynamic forests. Fire is a beneficial element that allows the longleaf forests of America's Southeast to survive. In recent decades foresters and landowners have become intensely aware of the need to "put enough fire on the ground" to preserve longleaf habitat for red-cockaded woodpeckers, quail, wild turkeys, and a host of other plants and animals. Painting the Landscape with Fire is a hands-on primer for understanding the role of fire in longleaf forests. Latham joins wildlife biologists, foresters, wildfire fighters, and others as they band and translocate endangered birds, survey snake populations, improve wildlife habitat, and conduct prescribed burns on public and private lands. Painting the Landscape with Fire explores the unique Southern biosphere of longleaf forests. Throughout Latham beautifully tells the story of the resilience of these woodlands and of the resourcefulness of those who work to see them thrive. Fire is destructive in the case of accidents, arson, or poor policy, but with the right precautions and safety measures, it is the glowing life force that these forests need.
Download or read book The Forest That Fire Made written by Carol Denhof and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Forest that Fire Made is a naturalist guide intended for a general readership. Although longleaf pine forests were often called "pine barrens" by early explorers and colonists, McGuire, Denhof, and Levan reveal that these forests were far from barren. In fact, this booming forest was home to thousands of unique plant and animal species. Covering a wide range of topics, such as the anatomy of the Longleaf tree, its history (and revival), and the surrounding fauna and foliage, the authors provide the general reader with a strong understanding of a forest that used to stretch as far as the eye could see. The authors claim that although the remnants of this once great longleaf pine forest exist, they are often just a reminder of its former majesty, only recognizable to the informed observer. Thus, The Forest that Fire Made is dedicated to introducing the next generation of outdoor enthusiasts to many of the unique animals and plants that their grandparents would have known"--
Download or read book Flames in Our Forest written by Stephen F. Arno and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shaped by fire for thousands of years, the forests of the western United States are as adapted to periodic fires as they are to the region's soils and climate. Our widespread practice of ignoring the vital role of fire is costly in both ecological and economic terms, with consequences including the decline of important fire-dependent tree and undergrowth species, increasing density and stagnation of forests, epidemics of insects and diseases, and the high potential for severe wildfires. Flames in Our Forest explains those problems and presents viable solutions to them. It explores the underlying historical and ecological reasons for the problems associated with our attempts to exclude fire and examines how some of the benefits of natural fire can be restored Chapters consider: the history of American perceptions and uses of fire in the forest how forest fires burn effects of fire on the soil, water, and air methods for uncovering the history and effects of past fires prescribed fire and fuel treatments for different zones in the landscape Flames in Our Forest presents a new picture of the role of fire in maintaining forests, describes the options available for restoring the historical effects of fires, and considers the implications of not doing so. It will help readers appreciate the importance of fire in forests and gives a nontechnical overview of the scientific knowledge and tools available for sustaining western forests by mimicking and restoring the effects of natural fire regimes.
Download or read book Effects of Fire on Forests a Bibiliography written by United States. Forest Service and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effects of Fire on Southern Pine written by Dale D. Wade and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Getting at the Roots of Man caused Forest Fires written by John P. Shea and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fire in Longleaf Pine Forests written by W. G. Wahlenberg and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fire Ecology and Fire Use in the Pine Forest of the South written by A. Bigler Crow and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old Growth Ponderosa Pine and Western Larch Stand Structures written by Stephen F. Arno and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fire in the Northern Environment a Symposium written by United States. Forest Service and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fire in Longleaf Pine Forests written by W. G. Wahlenberg and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fire Forest written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fire and the Environment written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Smoldering Fire in Long unburned Longleaf Pine Forests written by Julian Morgan Varner and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In landscape-scale experimental fires in long-unburned pine forests, four replicated treatments based on lower forest floor (duff) moisture content were applied: dry burns were ignited at 55% duff moisture content (DMC); moist burns at 85% DMC; wet burns at 115% DMC; and there was a control treatment that was not burned. Pine mortality was delayed up to 18 months following burning, and was highest (P
Download or read book The Use of Fire in the Protection of Longleaf and Slash Pine Forests written by C. A. Bickford and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The southern Coastal Plain during the late winter and early spring of 1943 suffered one of the worst fire seasons in the experience of organized forest fire protection in this region; loses in the first 4 months of 1943 were approximately double the average annual loss for the past 8 years. Fire losses were particularly severe in the longleaf and slash pine portion of the Coastal Plain because of the long drought, large number of fires, and shortage of experienced labor for fire control. Forest land owners and managers in the region of longleaf and slash pines are faced with a critical protection problem; recurrence of these severe conditions threatens the destruction of all or most of the growing stock on individual properties. In this situation, they are becoming increasingly interested in the use of fire as an aid to forest protection. This use of fire has been developing slowly for several years; the very destructive fires of 1932 and 1934 led several forest managers in various parts of the longleaf pine belt to try winter burning to reduce hazardous fuel accumulations. Since then many properties have been so treated, first experimentally, then regularly, especially in south Georgia and northeast Florida where many leaders recognize this use of fire as a substantial aid to the successful management of slash and longleaf pine forests. Misunderstanding and confusion obscure this practice, partly as a result of the term "controlled burning"--a loosely defined phrase which has widely divergent meanings to different people. Further confusion has been created by the criticism of those who, opposed to any use of fire in forestry, have strongly condemned it. Finally, the objectives, dangers, and full potentialities of this tool in forest management have not been clearly recognized by those using fire in forest protection, with the result that some burning has been either ineffective or definitely harmful.
Download or read book Mimicking Nature s Fire written by Stephen F. Arno and published by . This book was released on 2005-03-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mimicking Nature's Fire, forest ecologists Stephen Arno and Carl Fiedler present practical solutions to the pervasive problem of deteriorating forest conditions in western North America.
