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Current Titles in Wildland Fire, May 2012 Title: Heterogeneous Reactions on Biomass Burning Aerosol: the Case Study of the 2010 Mega Fire Event in Russia Source: Geophysical Research Abstracts 14: 1 Page Year: 2012 Keywords: Russia Conflagration Smoke Emissions How to Locate: Download With Google How to Locate: Fire Research Institute, Pdf Number 81727 Author(s): Kraker, D. Title: Racing to Restore Northern Arizona's Forests Source: Knau Website, Knau Public Radio, Audio File Year: 2010 Keywords: Ecological Restoration, Management, Schultz Fire Abstract: Last Week Firefighter Robert Bolina Took A Break From Mopping Up the Smoldering Remains of the Schultz Fire. Gazing at A Charred Mountainside, He Said this Blaze is Another Example of Good Intentions Gone Awry. "because We've Excluded Fire From the Landscape, You Know Smokey the Bear, Fire is Bad! Most of our Ecosystems Are Overgrown, Overstocked, Where Fire Used to Take Care of that Naturally ...so Now We Need to Manipulate the Landscape, Thin, Open the Landscape back Up Like It Used to Be." That, He Says, is the Only Thing that Will Stop Catastrophic Infernos Like the Schultz Fire. And, in Fact, in 2007 the Forest Service released A Plan to Try to Do Just That. But It Was Appealed by the Center for Biological Diversity. The Center's Taylor Mckinnon Explains Why. "the First Plan would Have Logged Many Thousands of Large Trees, Some in Excess of 24 Inches in Diameter, and It Would Have Left Forest Canopies, With as Little as Ten Percent cover, and It Was Inconsistent With the Forest Service's Own Rules." the Forest Service Agreed to Analyze the Project More Fully, to Make Some Adjustments. Then it Was Objected to Again. A Year Later, It Was Cleared for Implementation. Then, It Had to Be Prepared for A Commercial Timber Sale, the First Step in the Thinning Process. That Took Another Year. By The... How to Locate: Audio - Download at Http://library.eri.nau.edu Author(s): Krawchuk, M. Title: Exploring Forest Management, Fire Suppression and Environmental Conservation in China Source: Wildfire 21(1): 16-24 Year: 2012 Keywords: Management Suppression Prescribed Burning Equipment How to Locate: Fire Research Institute, Pdf Number 81311 Author(s): Kulakowski, P., Calle, E. And Marzo, J. L. Title: Performance Study of Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks in Forest Fire Scenarios Source: International Journal of Commun. Syst., Available Online March, 2012 Year: 2012 Keywords: Equipment Management Abstract: Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (wsans) for Environmental Disaster Scenarios Are Considered in This Paper. A Fully Independent and Autonomous Wsan System that is Able to detect and Extinguish A Fire in A Burning Wildland Area is Proposed. Although Forest Fire Detection is A Classical Application for Sensor Networks, in This Paper, This Research Area is extended, Taking Into Account Actuators and Their Ability to Put Out Fire in the Presence of Measurement Inaccuracy and Network Degradation. A System Architecture is Proposed, modelled and Discussed. An Extensive Set of Computer Simulations Analysing the System Performance is Reported. The Presented Results 46
Current Titles in Wildland Fire, May 2012 Show the Efficiency of Fire-fighting Actions depending on the Sensors' Density and the Actuators' Mobility. How to Locate: Contact Joseluis.marzo@udg.edu Author(s): Lake, Frank K. Title: Working With American Indian Tribes on Wildland Fires: Protecting Cultural Heritage Sites in Northwestern California Source: Fire Management Today 71(3): 14-21 Year: 2011 Keywords: Management How to Locate: Download at Treesearch How to Locate: Fire Research Institute, Pdf Number 81904 Author(s): Larson, E. R. And Kipfmueller, K. F. Title: Ecological Disaster or the Limits of Observation - Reconciling Modern Declines With the Long-term Dynamics of Whitebark Pine Communities Source: Geography Compass 6: 189-214 Year: 2012 Keywords: Ecology Abstract: the History of Whitebark Pine (pinus Albicaulis) Forests Over the Past Century Exemplifies Modern Environmental Change and the Particular Challenges Faced in Reconciling the Scales of human Observation With Long-term Ecological Changes. A Number of Factors Are Implicated in Driving Observed Declines in Whitebark Pine Populations Including Fire Suppression, Climate change, the Exotic Pathogen Cronartium Ribicola and Associated White Pine Blister Rust, and Mountain Pine Beetle (dendroctonus Ponderosae) Outbreaks, Yet the Actual Effects of These factors Vary Widely Across the Range of Whitebark Pine that Encompasses Considerable Environmental Heterogeneity. Furthermore, the Specific Effects of These Agents Are Difficult to isolate or Predict in A Forest Type Where Disturbance Regimes and Succession Operate on Scales of Centuries Rather Than Decades. The Resulting Situation is Highly Complex, Yet the Urgency for restoration in Some Areas is Leading to Generalizations Elsewhere that Do Not Always Account for the Diversity of Forests Considered as Whitebark Pine Communities. Our Research Reviews the current State of Knowledge on the Biogeography, Disturbance Regimes, and Mechanisms of Decline in Whitebark Pine Communities. We Then Use An Expanded Temporal Perspective Based on Dendroecological Case Studies to Critically Assess the Potential Effects of Fire Suppression in Whitebark Pine Communities and the Ecological Relationship Between Whitebark Pine and mountain Pine Beetle. Based on Our Findings, It Appears that Fire Suppression is Not the Ubiquitous Factor Leading to Whitebark Pine Declines, as Often Implicated in the Published literature, and that Whitebark Pine May Be Well Adapted to Recover Following Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreaks in Areas that Have Not Been Impacted Too Severely From White Pine Blister Rust. How to Locate: Contact Larsonev@uwplatt.edu Author(s): Laughlin, D. C., Roccaforte, J. P., Fule, P. Z. Title: Effects of A Second-entry Prescribed Fire in A Mixed Conifer Forest Source: Western North American Naturalist 71(4): 557-562 Year: 2011 Keywords: Mixed Conifer, Prescribed Burns Abstract: We Analyzed the Effects of A Second-entry Prescribed Fire in A Mixed Conifer Forest in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, 14 Years After the Initial Burn to assess Whether Restoration and Management Objectives Were Achieved. The Surface Fire Had Little Effect on Large Overstory Ponderosa Pine, Douglas-fir, and white Fir Trees and Did Not Change Total Tree Density or Basal Area. The Fire Reduced the Overall Density of 47
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