Download or read book Yosemite Firestorm written by Tanya Stowe and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A raging forest fire isn’t the only threat… When an act of arson claims the life of a hiker, Yosemite Park Ranger Livy Chatham is the only witness—putting her right into the path of determined criminals. Only rock climber Hayden Bryant can protect her from the killers destroying all evidence of their crimes. But can Livy and Hayden outrun the danger that’s as hot on their heels as the fires blazing through Yosemite? From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith.
Download or read book Between Two Fires written by Stephen J. Pyne and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a fire policy of prevention at all costs to today's restored burning, Between Two Fires is America's history channeled through the story of wildland fire management. Stephen J. Pyne tells of a fire revolution that began in the 1960s as a reaction to simple suppression and single-agency hegemony, and then matured into more enlightened programs of fire management. It describes the counterrevolution of the 1980s that stalled the movement, the revival of reform after 1994, and the fire scene that has evolved since then. Pyne is uniquely qualified to tell America’s fire story. The author of more than a score of books, he has told fire’s history in the United States, Australia, Canada, Europe, and the Earth overall. In his earlier life, he spent fifteen seasons with the North Rim Longshots at Grand Canyon National Park. In Between Two Fires, Pyne recounts how, after the Great Fires of 1910, a policy of fire suppression spread from America’s founding corps of foresters into a national policy that manifested itself as a costly all-out war on fire. After fifty years of attempted fire suppression, a revolution in thinking led to a more pluralistic strategy for fire’s restoration. The revolution succeeded in displacing suppression as a sole strategy, but it has failed to fully integrate fire and land management and has fallen short of its goals. Today, the nation’s backcountry and increasingly its exurban fringe are threatened by larger and more damaging burns, fire agencies are scrambling for funds, firefighters continue to die, and the country seems unable to come to grips with the fundamentals behind a rising tide of megafires. Pyne has once again constructed a history of record that will shape our next century of fire management. Between Two Fires is a story of ideas, institutions, and fires. It’s America’s story told through the nation’s flames.
Download or read book Wildfire written by Ferin Davis Anderson and published by Twenty-First Century Books TM. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wildfire is a natural process that takes place in forests and grasslands all over the world. In dry conditions, a single spark can rapidly transform into flames that stretch for miles and sweep across the landscape, burning away everything in their path. Although commonly seen as destructive and deadly, fire is a necessary part of ecosystems; they refresh the land and allow for new plant growth. Environmental scientist Ferin Davis Anderson and author Stephanie Sammartino McPherson examine how Indigenous people, farmers, and forestry departments have used fire to manage resources; why climate change is impacting the frequency and intensity of wildfires; and what the future of fire might look like.
Download or read book Firestorm written by Edward Struzik and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Frightening...Firestorm comes alive when Struzik discusses the work of offbeat scientists." —New York Times Book Review "Comprehensive and compelling." —Booklist "A powerful message." —Kirkus "Should be required reading." —Library Journal For two months in the spring of 2016, the world watched as wildfire ravaged the Canadian town of Fort McMurray. Firefighters named the fire “the Beast.” It acted like a mythical animal, alive with destructive energy, and they hoped never to see anything like it again. Yet it’s not a stretch to imagine we will all soon live in a world in which fires like the Beast are commonplace. A glance at international headlines shows a remarkable increase in higher temperatures, stronger winds, and drier lands– a trifecta for igniting wildfires like we’ve rarely seen before. This change is particularly noticeable in the northern forests of the United States and Canada. These forests require fire to maintain healthy ecosystems, but as the human population grows, and as changes in climate, animal and insect species, and disease cause further destabilization, wildfires have turned into a potentially uncontrollable threat to human lives and livelihoods. Our understanding of the role fire plays in healthy forests has come a long way in the past century. Despite this, we are not prepared to deal with an escalation of fire during periods of intense drought and shorter winters, earlier springs, potentially more lightning strikes and hotter summers. There is too much fuel on the ground, too many people and assets to protect, and no plan in place to deal with these challenges. In Firestorm, journalist Edward Struzik visits scorched earth from Alaska to Maine, and introduces the scientists, firefighters, and resource managers making the case for a radically different approach to managing wildfire in the 21st century. Wildfires can no longer be treated as avoidable events because the risk and dangers are becoming too great and costly. Struzik weaves a heart-pumping narrative of science, economics, politics, and human determination and points to the ways that we, and the wilder inhabitants of the forests around our cities and towns, might yet flourish in an age of growing megafires.
Download or read book Conservation and Recreation in Protected Areas written by Yun Ma and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive and up to date comparative study of the management and resolution of conflicts between conservation and recreation in protected areas in the US and China. Competing claims on the use of nature, increasing regulation of land use and recreational activities, and the conflicting goals between conservation and development have led to a rise in conflicts in the designation and management of protected areas. How to effectively manage and resolve these conflicts has become a challenge for both legislators and managers. By adopting an institutional dimension in legal interpretation, this book critically examines how such conflicts are dealt with in the legal regimes of the US and China while exploring interactions between legislatures, agencies and courts. The book searches for a plausible solution to improve the legal framework of protected areas in China by emulating pertinent mechanisms developed in the US, whilst also presenting legal and policy recommendations to the US. This informative book will be useful for legal scholars in Chinese law, nature conservation law, administrative law and comparative law.
Download or read book Love Inspired Suspense April 2023 Box Set 2 of 2 written by Mary Alford and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. This box set includes: AMISH WILDERNESS SURVIVAL by Mary Alford To find her missing brother, Leora Mast must first survive the danger that followed her to Montana. She finds an unexpected ally in Fletcher Shetler…but unraveling the truth behind her brother’s disappearance will be harder than she ever imagined. Can they stay alive long enough to save her brother? YOSEMITE FIRESTORM By Tanya Stowe Park ranger Olivia Chatham and search-and-rescue leader Hayden Bryant lead a group of climbers to safety from a raging inferno in Yosemite, but killers have orders to destroy all witnesses to their crime…including Olivia. Can Olivia and Hayden get to safety before the flames and killers get to them? WYOMING COLD CASE SECRETS by Sommer Smith When Brynn Evans learns she was adopted as an infant, she begins digging into her past…and finds a killer intent on stopping her. Brynn’s mysterious background is just the kind of challenge private investigator Avery Thorpe can’t resist, but is revealing old secrets worth their lives? For more stories filled with danger and romance, look for Love Inspired Suspense April 2023 Box Set – 1 of 2
Download or read book The Good News About Hard Times written by Jonathan H. Wilson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James, our life coach. James, the brother of Jesus, was not a believer until after the Resurrection. Then his whole life changed. He was made the leader of the early church. We often think of the great apostle Paul as the greatest leader in the early church, but whose counsel did Paul seek when he had to make a crucial decision three times? Was it not James whose counsel he sought? James was Paul's life coach, and by reading and studying the sacred and inspired writings of James, he can then can become our life coach.
Download or read book Targeted in the Desert written by Dana Mentink and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danger from the past… and a little girl in peril Family secrets have Felicia Tennison, and the sister she never knew existed, on the run. Someone is after them, and Felicia will have to turn to someone she never wanted to see again for help—her ex. Sheriff Jude Duke vows to protect them as they race to uncover why the little girl is a target. But the search to find the answers could cost them their futures. From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith. Desert Justice Book 1: Framed in Death Valley Book 2: Missing in the Desert Book 3: Death Valley Double Cross Book 4: Death Valley Hideout Book 5: Christmas Crime Cover-Up Book 6: Targeted in the Desert
Download or read book Fire in California s Ecosystems written by Jan W. van Wagtendonk and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fire in California’s Ecosystems describes fire in detail—both as an integral natural process in the California landscape and as a growing threat to urban and suburban developments in the state. Written by many of the foremost authorities on the subject, this comprehensive volume is an ideal authoritative reference tool and the foremost synthesis of knowledge on the science, ecology, and management of fire in California. Part One introduces the basics of fire ecology, including overviews of historical fires, vegetation, climate, weather, fire as a physical and ecological process, and fire regimes, and reviews the interactions between fire and the physical, plant, and animal components of the environment. Part Two explores the history and ecology of fire in each of California's nine bioregions. Part Three examines fire management in California during Native American and post-Euro-American settlement and also current issues related to fire policy such as fuel management, watershed management, air quality, invasive plant species, at-risk species, climate change, social dynamics, and the future of fire management. This edition includes critical scientific and management updates and four new chapters on fire weather, fire regimes, climate change, and social dynamics.
Download or read book Interior Department Appropriation Bill for 1944 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interior Department Appropriation Bill for 1944 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior Department and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 1622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Interior Department Appropriation Bill written by United States. Congress. House. Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Wildfire written by Patrick Cone and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Briefly traces the history of wildfire before going on to discuss types, when and where they start, their behavior, ecological effects, fighting and preventing them.
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Download or read book Message of the President of the United States Transmitting the Budget for the Service of the Fiscal Year Ending written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
