Download or read book Wildfire Mitigation in Florida written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wildfire Mitigation in Florida written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessing Burn History Fire Severity and Mapping Fuels Mitigation Treatments in the Wildland Urban Interface of North Central Florida written by Matthew William Graham and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: The pyrogenic forest ecosystems of north central Florida were historically maintained by frequent low severity fires. Portions of two wildfires burned the same area in 2004 and 2007 in Osceola National Forest and these were tested to see if the second fire experienced lower severity as a result of the earlier fire. This was done using remotely sensed images enhanced with the Normalized Burn Ratio, classified, and compared. The second fire was more severe than the first showing no contribution from the 2004 fire in reducing the 2007 fire. Drought conditions contributed to the severity of the 2007 fire, but cannot be concluded to be the only driver of severity as fuel loads, stand ages, and management are not accounted for. During this same time period, the Florida Division of Forestry Region Two Wildfire Mitigation Team conducted fuels reduction treatments on private property throughout north central Florida. Spatial record keeping was analyzed and it was determined that 46 of the 272 projects in the 18 county region had location specific data. Prototype maps were developed to improve the understanding of where and what type of work was performed and format them in ways that could be useful to decision makers in wildfire suppression situations. Working 12 directly with mitigation personnel, 22 additional project locations were identified. During the 2007 season, four wildfires impacted mitigation projects and fire fighters did attribute the ease of containment to fuels reduction. Factors that contributed to lack of spatial data are addressed and suggestions for improving the institutional structure of data management in the future are given.
Download or read book Through the Flames written by Florida. Governor's Wildfire Response and Mitigation Review Committee and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Field Hearing on 1998 Florida Wildfires written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Emergency Management and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forest Fires in Florida written by Harry Lee Baker and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wildfire Risk Reduction in Florida written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the population grows in Florida's wild-land-urban interface areas, the number of wildfires impacting residents and suppression costs also continue to grow. The need for mitigation - vegetation management and community education - is critical.
Download or read book Florida Wildfire Prevention written by Florida. Division of Forestry and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instructor's guide and CD-ROM with interactive games, exercises and messages offer a fun presentation of facts and information about fire and the ecosystem. The Instructor's guide has reproducible pages of activities to reinforce content. Primarily designed for use in 4th-6th grade classrooms, but can be used with a wide variety of audiences.
Download or read book Fire Ecology of Florida and the Southeastern Coastal Plain written by Reed F. Noss and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biodiversity hotspot, Florida is home to many ecosystems and species that evolved in the presence of frequent fire. In this book, Reed Noss discusses the essential role of fire in generating biodiversity and offers best practices for using fire to keep the region's ecosystems healthy and resilient. Reviewing several lines of evidence, Noss shows that fire has been important to the southeastern Coastal Plain for tens of millions of years. He explains how the region's natural fire regimes are connected to its climate, high rate of lightning strikes, physical chemistry, and vegetation. But urbanization and active fire suppression have reduced the frequency and extent of fires. Noss suggests the practice of controlled burning can and should be improved to protect fire-dependent species and natural communities from decline and extinction. Noss argues that fire managers should attempt to simulate natural fire regimes when conducting controlled burns. Based on what the species of the Southeast likely experienced during their evolutionary histories, he makes recommendations about pyrodiversity, how often and in what seasons to burn, the optimal heterogeneity of burns, mechanical treatments such as cutting and roller-chopping, and the proper use of fuel breaks. In doing so, Noss is the first to apply the new discipline of evolutionary fire ecology to a specific region. This book is a fascinating history of fire ecology in Florida, an enlightening look at why fire matters to the region, and a necessary resource for conservationists and fire managers in the state and elsewhere.
Download or read book After the Flames Florida Wildfires of 1998 written by Florida. Division of Emergency Management and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Protecting Life and Property from Wildfire written by James C. Smalley and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2005 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make your community firewise with powerful facts! From coast to coast, an estimated 30,000 communities are at risk from wildland fire. This text provides community leaders and the fire service with the tools required to understand this complex problem and work together to mitigate risks. Protecting Life and Property from Wildfire follows a plan for safer community development, and presents a comprehensive program for protecting lives and property.
Download or read book FLORIDA WILDFIRE PREVENTION written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wildland Fire Management in South Florida written by Florida. Division of Forestry and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Florida written by Stephen J. Pyne and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Florida, fire season is plural, and it is most often a verb. Something can always burn. Fires burn longleaf, slash, and sand pine. They burn wiregrass, sawgrass, and palmetto. The lush growth, the dry winters, the widely cast sparks—Florida is built to burn. In this important new collection of essays on the region, Stephen J. Pyne colorfully explores the ways the region has approached fire management. Florida has long resisted national models of fire suppression in favor of prescribed burning, for which it has ideal environmental conditions and a robust culture. Out of this heritage the fire community has created institutions to match. The Tallahassee region became the ignition point for the national fire revolution of the 1960s. Today, it remains the Silicon Valley of prescription burning. How and why this happened is the topic of a fire reconnaissance that begins in the panhandle and follows Floridian fire south to the Everglades. Florida is the first book in a multivolume series describing the nation’s fire scene region by region. The volumes in To the Last Smoke will also cover California, the Northern Rockies, the Great Plains, the Southwest, and several other critical fire regions. The series serves as an important punctuation point to Pyne’s fifty-year career with wildland fire—both as a firefighter and a fire scholar. These unique surveys of regional pyrogeography are Pyne’s way of “keeping with it to the end,” encompassing the directive from his rookie season to stay with every fire “to the last smoke.”
Download or read book Wildfire at the Wildland urban Interface written by Steve Cook and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forest Fire Control written by Florida Forest Service and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Public and Wildland Fire Management written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents key social science findings from three National Fire Plan-sponsored research projects. Articles highlight information of likely interest to individuals working to decrease wildfire hazards on both private and public lands. Three general topic areas are addressed: (1) public views and acceptance of fuels management, (2) working with homeowners and communities, and (3) tools that can help us understand social issues.
