The Negative Effects Of Forest Fires

It will also produce for Nitrogen into the soil, to help more plants and vegetation grow in the future. With the Nitrogen and other additional nutrients in the soil it is helping farmers with their crops getting the nutrients it needs. Fires can also clear forests of insect infestations and potential diseases Warren (2011). Among the other benefits of prescribed burning are: Insect pest control, Removal of exotic, or non-species that compete with native species for nutrients and other needs, Fires occurring in nature can restore ecological balance and facilitate regeneration Warren

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

In North America, the boreal forest is known to be one of the largest carbon storage systems. A boreal forest is a biome that is made up of trees such as pines, spruces and another conifer species, the Black Spruce being one of the most essential species of the boreal forest. Fires may be a significant element to the ecosystem in terms of maintaining an ideal community by selecting for species and their traits that, in return, shape the environment, however forest fires are causing the Black Spruce species to deteriorate in population size due to the effects of the fires, caused by a rise in temperature. Clearly, temperature is the leading factor causing constant wildland fires across North America. This concludes the degree of heat intensity in the environment is

In the article “Carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide fluxes from a fire chronosequence in subarctic boreal forests of canada,” the authors studied the effects of forest fires in Northwestern Canada. Koster et al. focused on the effects that forest fires had over time, on three greenhouse gases. There were three main hypotheses in the research paper: The increases of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide will change as a consequence of fire and the

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

Using controlled fires is highly recommended for wildlife habitat management where loblolly, shortleaf, longleaf, or slash pine is the primary species. The lives of several endangered species, including the Florida panther, gopher tortoise, indigo snake, and red cockaded woodpecker are also enhanced greatly when controlled fires are used to upkeep their habitats. Many different species lives' are improved when using the right kind of controlled burns to help keep their environments healthy and habitable. For example fruit and seed production is stimulated, yield and quality increases occur in herbage, legumes, and browse from hardwood sprouts, and openings are created for feeding, travel, and

The debate over using prescribed fires or not to help our environment continues on. Although statistics are hard to come by, many people, including myself, believe that controlled fires are necessary to protect wildlife areas. Prescribed fires or controlled burns actually protect human communities from more dangerous uncontrolled wildfires. They also improve land for endangered and threatened species and actually promote the growth of plants. Many believe that these prescribed fires do more damage than good, conversely, my opinion is that they are wrong.

Firstly, controlled burning puts nutrients back into the soil, which promotes the growth of trees and other plants necessary for animals to survive. However you cannot predict how large a fire will be and it may take out a large,if not all, amount of the plants, they will grow back healthier. Secondly, it minimizes the spread of diseases by getting rid of pests that pass the disease around to animals and humans. It improves the habitat for animals such as birds, it increases food production and availability, for other animals like deer, it increases the amount of browse

The questions facing managers is how will these severely burned areas recover in an era of changing climate? Will forest structure and vegetation be permanently altered? In areas where past high-severity fires have burned, recent large fires have struck again, further complicating stand recovery and adding another challenge for land managers; thus, we will need greater insight as to how, and if, high-severity burned areas can continually recover (Seager and Vecchi 2010). Improved understanding of the processes of successional changes in mixed-conifer forests will help facilitate management efforts to sustain the many resources valued in these ecosystems (Meng, 2015).

First of all, the author of the reading passage suggests that the forest fire imposed huge damage on the trees in Yellowstone park since many land had been fired and scorched. In contrast, the professor in the lecture argues that the fire makes the plant become more diverse. For instance, some big trees were replaced by small trees, and some certain species which needs high level of heat could

The likely short-term impacts of the wildfires will be the air quality which will mean it will be safe to have outdoor exposure after the wildfires are contained and the air quality becomes safe in terms of health conditions. Another short term impact will be the decrease in plants due to the fires that are burning them which will then affect the the carbon cycle due to plants being burned and carbon dioxide becomes abundant in the atmosphere in large amounts which will create an atmospheric disbalance.

i think it is necessary to use controlled fires so it can prevent actual fires Plants germinate and flower following a fire and This growth provides cover for small mammals and young turkeys and quail. Fire supression reduces the diversity in plant species and has led to the disappearance of some plant communities. It contributes to energy, water, and nutrient cycling. Few species are shown to suffer population declines due to not burning regularly. Prescribed fires acts as natures gardener by trimming overmature shrubs that shade out sun dependent plants such as grasses and prairie flowers, Prescribed fires are good.So if you are against the prescription of fires in forests you are a hypocrite because there are a lot of benefits coming from

Wildfire and prescribed burns have a variety of impacts on wildlife and habitats, both direct and indirect (Wasserman 2015). Direct effects include fatality, emigration out of burned areas, immigration into new areas. Indirect effects is changes in vegetative structure, diversity, species composition, and other components of their habitat. Species responses to wildfire depends on these direct and indirect effects of fire and how fire regimes and fire severity impacted the landscape (Fulé et al. 2003, Reynolds et al. 2013). Herbivores, such as elk, deer, and bighorn sheep, respond in post-fire wilderness due to the open dense canopies that allow an increase in understory plants that herbivores feed on (Bailey and Whittam 2002). For example, elk prefer forage quality that provide their required calorie intake to allow them to successfully produce milk. During early succession, mid-succession, and late succession of post fire habitat, forage quality is at its highest during early succession stages in both mesic and xeric sites (Swanson et al. 2011). This suggest that herbivores, like elk, would utilize these early succession post fire areas. Carnivores and mesocarnivores respond to post-fire changes as well. Male american black bears and grizzly bears used burned sites increasing their home range post-fire. Canids, such as the coyote, use both burned and unburned areas due to food availability (Cunningham et al 2002). The Mount Washburn sites are in landscapes that experienced high severity fires and have an abundance of whitebark pine deadfall in the area. This overabundance of deadfall might detter larger herbivores and carnivores decreasing wildlife species diversity. Wildlife species diversity is an intuitive way to determine an ecosystem’s health and status (Edwards and Abivardi 1998). Wildlife species diversity boosts ecosystem productivity due to diversification

Wildfires burn three million acres of forest in the United States each year, killing wildlife trees and plants. Approxemately 90 percent of them are caused by human carelessness most of the rest were started by lightning. Some plants and trees have addapted remarkably good to the threat of fire. For example, the bark of redwoods may be up to a foot thick this makes the trees fire resistant. This one characteristic help ensure the redwoods

Each year on the new you hear about more and more wildfires charing our land. Why are we hearing about more fires every year and why are they burning longer. Wildfire are getting harder to fight and are costing us a lot more money to fight. Wildfire are becoming more common and are taking longer to fight.First off one of the main reasons for the fires becoming more frequent is because of people. On a nice hot July day in the middle of the drought all it takes is one spark from your chain dragging on the road to spark a multi thousand acre fire. Also with more people out in the woods camping they want a fire so they build one but don't maintain it and just let it burn. This is turn lights the forest on fire in a blink of an eye. People do start