Uncontrollable Wild Fire

Forest fires kill many animals and usually destroy a large amount of land. Prescribed burns seem like they would be the best idea, but are they? Their claim to fame is to clear out land in order to decrease the burning space for when an actual forest fire occurs. Yet this may seem like a brilliant idea, but one must look at the negative aspects of controlled burnings. People might have a change of heart when they realize the damages and effects of such an interesting act. Keep in mind that not only is your health involved but even such things as the inconvenience of dealing with a smoky town. It is important to understand that prescribed burns cause severe health problems especially to

There are many reasons that a controlled fire is very necessary to our environment. It is not only beneficial to nature but also to people as well. For example, many farmers will have controlled fires to improve the land for their livestock. When the land is burned off, new growth will begin to take its place which in turn becomes better "food" for the animals. The new growth is richer and has more nutrients than the old, dried

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.

There are also so many animals that go along with the damage from the fires because they are living in the middle of it and do not have any where to go. It makes sense that actions such as controlled burns should be done because so much could be prevented. Then again there are so many people who argue against them because they are a disruption to the environment. “Fire experts argue that prescribed burns are vital for reducing the risk of catastrophic blazes and restoring ecosystems that evolved with fire” (Tobin 2). If a great deal of damage could be prevented, I do not see why there should be any concern. This is especially important when you look at what more damage is done to the environment during a huge forest fire compared to on from a petite controlled burn.

Policies regarding the handling of wildland fires continue to change and evolve as new information is learned each fire season. Attitudes have changed between complete wildland fire suppression to no suppression at all. We now seem to have reached a balance between the two schools of thought and fall somewhere in the middle.

There are many different techniques or methods used to manage rangelands. These methods have been implemented to improve the health of a rangeland. One such technique that has been found to be beneficial is controlled burning. Controlled burning can help improve rangelands for both livestock and wildlife if managed properly. This is done by burning an area which kills undesirable woody species, giving desirable, native grass species a chance to bounce back, as they can be choked out by these competing woody species. Controlled burning can also have negative effects as well if managed improperly. If controlled burns are managed properly, the overall

While not all the effects of prescribed burns are known some are very evident. The first of these common effects is that vegetation and fallen dead material are burned creating an open forest floor. This eliminates any fuel that could contribute to a high intensity fire in the future. When the fire burns the organic material in the forest, nutrient rich ash is left behind. When the first rain comes, the nutrients in the ash dissolve into the soil for the new plants to use. This process is called nutrient recycling. These nutrients left in the soil are a good source of food for the young plants that will begin to grow back. Another outcome of prescribed fire is that new growth begins immediately after the fires have been extinguished. Within

All around the world, environments are constantly changing. Forest fires take part in the way our environment change and although an increase in forest fires in North America can negatively affect some species, it provides opportunities for many others. Certain species have found ways to adapt and thrive in forest fires while others need fire for reproductive success. Forest fires also promote diversity and a healthy ecosystem. The longer term one looks, the more opportunities can be seen for species to evolve through forest fires.

In the summer of 2015, wildfire season was the largest in Washington state history, burning more than one million acres across the state and some regions in Idaho from June to late September. To put perspective into the severity of the fire, it burned an area larger in size than the cities of Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles combined.

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

Ebonee, I do not agree with your opinions on the advantages of letting wildfires burn and I also believe they play a role in the planet’s Ecological activities. Ecology studies show how wildfires are essential to the planet’s ecosystem and how they correlate with the planet’s atmosphere and oceans. Environmental experts believe climate adjustments and environmental disturbances lead to developing wildfires in communities. They also believe these issues prompt environmental processes that deplete water from woodland vegetation and oceans. This environmental process then extracts the liquid and forces it into the atmosphere which in turn produces dry seasons in communities. These environmental impacts create more wildfires, effect oceans, melt

The Monstrous and merciless fires have had a huge impact on the community and significant consequences. There are many small businesses in the Blue Mountains area that were hugely impacted by the fires. Most of the businesses are struggling with normal circumstances and business owners are often using money from their personal savings to keep the company going. These fires forced business owners to write off around 10 days as lost, and focus on recovery, continue to pay wages with little or no workers still working, also businesses have no support or funds to bring them back to a stable income. Tourism also took a huge fall as many canceled bookings due to the fires have caused a huge loss to the Blue Mountains community as most of their income

I selected this article because it is about a forest fire. This article is a representation of what can happen in our own environment. This article is recent and happened in Fort McMurray. The wildfire was a devastation to many buildings and homes in the area. Officials had declared a state of emergency and people packed their bags. In Animal Farm, the animals didn’t have much of a choice.

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).

Wildfires benefit by killing all the dead trees and making them re grow better than they were before. It also helps clean the forest floors from all the dead plants. The ashes can provide nutrients for other plants. It makes more generations every time there's a wild first. Wildfires can clear diseases if an insect in that habitat is carrying it.