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Climate Change Blog: July 2006 Monthly Archives
Rising global temperatures causing more severe fires are expected to change forest composition and their ability to store atmospheric carbon dioxide ...
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Changed Southwestern Forests: Resource effects and management remedies (part 3 of 3)
Debris flows increase following severe fires (Jensen and Cole, 1965; Klock and Healvey, 1976). During heavy rains, Campbell et al. ... far more trees today than ever before, an unsustainable condition. This leads to severe, stand-replacing fires, followed by damage to resource values and decreased soil productivity. Water, sometimes ...
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The Heat Is Online
Grant A. Meyer, a co-author of the study, published in today's journal ... New Jersey, extreme water shortages and heat waves have placed even drought-resistant trees under severe stress, causing early leaf loss, increased susceptibility to disease and premature death. Tropical Forests May ...
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John Muir Project - Exploiting Federal Lands
Amazingly, however, the press releases issued by Feinstein, Craig and company urge that scarce ...
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John Muir Project - Getting Burned
As with all good deceptions, this one contains some grains of truth. Most experts now agree, for example, that in some areas excessively high levels of undergrowth can cause unnaturally severe fires ... do. Or, we can continue to allow misguided logging advocates to destroy ecosystems and increase severe fires on federal lands -- all at taxpayer expense. The choice is ours. René Voss is Public ...
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Wild Horse Gathers and the Elko Fires
Over 950,000 ... horses on the range. Oftentimes when there is widespread and severe range damage, grazing lessees have to remove their cattle and ... unpolluted water to drink and trees to take cover under during severe weather. In addition, depending upon the scope of the devastation, ...
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Severe Weather: NOAA Watch: NOAA's All-Hazard Monitor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: U.S. Department of Commerce
NOAA on severe weather... General Information: StormReady Coastal Storm Program Lightning Safety Severe Weather Safety Links Severe Weather Awareness Severe Weather Brochures Severe Weather statistics: Daily preliminary storm reports Archived severe weather ... to-cloud, within a cloud, cloud-to-ground, or cloud-to-air. Many fires in the western United States and Alaska are started by lightning. The ...
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Ch. 7: Protection Against Fires and Carbon Monoxide - Nuclear War Survival Skills
The number of fires started by heat radiation in areas where blast is not severe can be reduced ... explosion was at such a distance that the blast wave was not severe enough to dent the car body. Book Page: 63 Earth-covered ... are dry, it is difficult to start even scattered fires. Dangerous mass fires would be unlikely, except in blast areas where the heat ...
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Yellowstone Fires
Gorte, R.W. 1995. Congressional Research Service Report for Congress: Forest Fires and Forest Health. Committee for the National Institute for the Environment. Washington, D.C. Merritts, ... : An Earth System Science Approach. W.H. Freeman and Company. New York, NY. National Severe Storms Laboratory Lightning Information: Questions and Answers About Lightning Wildfire: A Discovery Pictures Giant ...
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Global Forest Science - Press Release - Forest Expert Says Governor Running Out of Time on Monster Fires
Global Forest Science - Press Release - Forest Expert Says Governor Running Out of Time on Monster Fires Newsroom > Press Releases JOIN MAIL LIST: SEARCH: Discover GF Research Education Newsroom How to Help ... Southern California; Lake Arrowhead, Big Bear, Idyllwild and the hills of Orange County are at severe risk of wildfires. In northern California, the areas of Mammoth and Lake Tahoe are also ...
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