Prescribed Fire

Cigarettes are one of the main cause of wildfires, the other is camp fires not being extinguished properly, that is 90% of wildfires are caused by human mistakes Joyce (2017). The Texas Panhandle is going through a drought, while everyone is praying for rain. Once a wildfire starts it is very hard to control, even with the hard-working fire fighters. There are many other helpful individuals that track the signs of wildfires, such as the National Park Service.

Every Spring and Summer, Arizona loses more wilderness to the devastation of Wildfire. Our beautiful green forests and mountains are charred black not to be seen by this generation or the next. The poor and the rich are driven from their homes and cities before wildfire’s indiscriminate destructive might. Memories and dreams are wiped clean by fire and lives are forever changed. In June of 2011, Arizona had 2 major wildfires burning simultaneously. The Wallow fire in the White Mountains of Eastern Arizona and the Monument fire on Arizona’s southeastern border in the Chiricahua Mountains. Most of the valley fire departments sent teams of firefighters to combat these historic fires including myself. The human drama and fire behavior

The focus of this lesson will be teaching the students to examine the history of wildland fires and their impact on society in America and in their community. Students will explore different approaches to living with fire and will examine various fire management techniques including prescribed fire, fire suppression, and fire prevention. They will take a closer look at the Copper King Fire in Montana, and will conduct a research project of wildfire history in another state. Students will also gain a better understanding of the role of fire in a particular culture and the importance of wildfire in the ecosystem. They will also understand ways to reduce wildfire risk around their home and community. Furthermore, students will increase their knowledge

“Wildfires Devastate California,” a nonfiction article from Scholastic News by Sean Price, describes the dozens of wildfires in California that are affecting lots of Californians by forcing them to evacuate. The main cause of all this is the four-year drought making a lot of the forests and fields very dry and easier to burn. The current wildfires started when lightning struck the dry fields and forests. There are about 1,200 more fires now in 2015 than in the same period in 2014 -- that is a huge difference for just one year! Currently, California has 23 wildfires with 10,000 firefighters risking their lives to protect us and to put the fires out. The worst of all fires is the Rocky Fire which has destroyed 28 structures and caused 6,000

Looking upon the web journal “Why were California’s wine country fires so destructive”, author Jon Keeley takes in every factor that could have altered why the past and present wildfires have destructed the same area in California. Since late October the northern part of California has been affected by dozens of wildfires that has burned over 160,000 acres of land (Keeley). Upon researching the recent fires, Keeley noticed that Tubbs fire that occurred in Napa Valley this year, reflects many similarities to the Hanley fire that took place in 1964. Keeley looked into how the winds, population growth, climate change, and human factors have made these wildfires similar and indifferent.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire essentially led to the government to pass legislation on improving safety standards in public buildings all across the country. There are a lot of things that students have to do in order to control the amount of combustible

Wildfire risk in California refers to the chance wildfires may occur as a result of human interference with nature. In the book, “Our Changing Climate 2012” by the California Natural Resources Agency, the author discusses how computer projections project that in the future, the global warming will increase at a higher rate. The author claims that “wildfire risk increases in California will also be driven to a large extent by changes in land use and development.”(Agency 3). In other words, developing real estate and construction increases the chance of wildfires. Gathering from the Agency, only by consciously constructing the human environment can society reduce the risks of wildfires. This awareness is relevant today because over the 2017

Wildfire in California is a significant environmental problem that is increasing becoming more severe. Recent studies have shown that wildfire frequency, size, and area burned are all increasing in the western United States (Miller et al. 2008). The 2015 fire season set a record for the amount of acres burned in the United States with 68,151 wildfires burning 10,125,149 acres of land (Insurance Information Institute 2015). High severity wildfires have substantial environmental, economic, and human health impacts. Policy changes such as an adaptive management system of fuel reduction, as well as communication and education are essential tools in combating wildfire in California.

What I believe to be the greatest present environmental problem faced by California is the forest fire. A drought has continued for four years in California, and on April fool’s day, 2015, Jerry Brown, California governor, 　eventually issued a saving water order. It is undoubtedly that the water shortage is one of the problems that California has, but the most serious problem is the forest fire. Since it doesn’t rain and the air is exceedingly dry in California, when a forest fire breaks out, the fire spreads in an instant, and the fire causes great damage; for example, a large-scale forest fire broke out in a northern part of San Diego, California, on May.21, 2015. 11,000 households were warned to evacuate the area; at least one million square

Fires we all know them to be deadly and dangerous, but who would have thought that in Alaska, especially in the Yukon Flats there would be forest fires. These forest fires are causing a major problem with our Earth atmosphere. We can go back to 1939 and see that the fires that are happening right now are exactly the same ones that occurred in the past. The studies are being conducted by Ryan Kelly, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois and Feng Sheng Hu, a professor of plant biology and geology at the University of Illinois. For their studies, they have used actual fire data from previous studies to come up with a conclusion that in a radius of 2,000 km of the Yukon Flats the fires are way higher than what they were 10,000

On my first day, I hooked the kids in by telling them a story from my childhood. I loved to play with matches as a boy and ended up starting a road ditch on fire. A neighbor ran over and put the fire out. He scolded me harshly and explained to me that if my father, the Lieutenant in the fire department asked about the blaze; he would lie so I wouldn’t get in trouble. I then questioned the class, if it was ever okay to

The reading and the lecture are both about forest fires especially burning of the Yellowstone trees in 1960s, which change the idea of "let it burn".

As wildfires continue to increase in both duration and severity, wildland–urban interface becomes an increasingly important subject in communities across the Pacific Northwest. Klamath County is no exception to this statement and, consequently, a number of actions have been taken by county officials to address the threat of wildfires to communities within the area. One such action was the development of the Klamath County Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP).

An understanding of how fires, wildfires in particular, work was a fundamental part in learning how to fight fires properly. This understanding entailed knowing what makes a fire a fire, what could cause a fire, what hinders and aids a fire’s growth, what different types of fire there are, and the characteristics of said types. Without the basic understanding of these things, it would have made the evolution of aerial firefighting next to impossible.

Humans have been changing the Western forests' fire system since the settlement by the Europeans and now we are experiencing the consequences of those changes. During the summer of 2002, 6.9 million acres of forests was burnt up in the West (Wildland Fires, 1). This figure is two times the ten year annual average, and it does not look like next summer will be any better (Wildfire Season, 1).