[PDF] Greater Yellowstone Area Fire Situation 1988 eBook

Author : Greater Yellowstone Coordinat Committee
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,17 MB
Release : 2016-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781332887989

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Excerpt from Greater Yellowstone Area Fire Situation, 1988 The Greater Yellowstone Area (gya) is made up of parts of six National Forests and two National Parks, totalling nearly 12 million acres, in northwest Wyoming, eastern Idaho, and south-central Montana. Management opportunities in the gya are coordinated by the Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee, composed of three Regional Foresters, one Regional Director of the National Park Service, Forest Supervisors of six National Forests, and Superintendents of two National Parks. Fire management policies of the Forest Service and the National Park Service components of the gya are essentially similar. Two kinds of fires are recognized: wildfires, which mare fires that require an immediate suppression response based on land management objectives, and prescribed fires, which are fires that are managed in accordance with a written plan, with frequent monitoring. A wildfire is any fire that does not contribute to land management objectives, a fire that threatens human life, property, or forest resources, or a fire that no longer meets criteria in the fire management plan. A prescribed fire may be started by lightning or by fire specialists wanting to accomplish certain land management objectives. Each National Forest and National Park in the gya has a plan that delineates tracts of land where fires will be suppressed and where prescribed fires will be managed under specific conditions. Such tracts are often Wilderness Areas, where natural forces, including fire, are allowed to play an ecological role in accordance with the definitions of the Wilderness Act of 196a. The fire management plans are coordinated among the units of the gya, but there is much to be done to ensure that goals and suppression strategies are compatible, particularly along shared boundaries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : United States. Forest Service
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Wildfires
ISBN :

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The Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee's (GYCC) requested review of the coordination and management of the 1988 fire activity in the Greater Yellowstone Area.

Author : Rocky Barker
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1597266256

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In 1988, forest fires raged in Yellowstone National Park, destroying more than a million acres. As the nation watched the land around Old Faithful burn, a longstanding conflict over fire management reached a fever pitch. Should the U.S. Park and Forest Services suppress fires immediately or allow some to run their natural course? When should firefighters be sent to battle the flames and at what cost? In Scorched Earth, Barker, an environmental reporter who was on the ground and in the smoke during the 1988 fires, shows us that many of today's arguments over fire and the nature of public land began to take shape soon after the Civil War. As Barker explains, how the government responded to early fires in Yellowstone and to private investors in the region led ultimately to the protection of 600 million acres of public lands in the United States. Barker uses his considerable narrative talents to bring to life a fascinating, but often neglected, piece of American history. Scorched Earth lays a new foundation for examining current fire and environmental policies in America and the world. Our story begins when the West was yet to be won, with a colorful cast of characters: a civil war general and his soldiers, America's first investment banker, railroad men, naturalists, and fire-fighters-all of whom left their mark on Yellowstone. As the truth behind the creation of America's first national park is revealed, we discover the remarkable role the U.S. Army played in protecting Yellowstone and shaping public lands in the West. And we see the developing efforts of conservation's great figures as they struggled to preserve our heritage. With vivid descriptions of the famous fires that have raged in Yellowstone, the heroes who have tried to protect it, and the strategies that evolved as a result, Barker draws us into the very heart of a debate over our attempts to control nature and people. This entertaining and timely book challenges the traditional views both of those who arrogantly seek full control of nature and those who naively believe we can leave it unaltered. And it demonstrates how much of our broader environmental history was shaped in the lands of Yellowstone.

Author : H. A. Mooney
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642691374

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The earth's landscapes are being increasingly impacted by the activities of man. Unfortunately, we do not have a full understanding of the consequences of these disturbances on the earth's productive capacity. This problem was addressed by a group of French and U.S. ecologists who are specialists at levels of integration extending from genetics to the biosphere at a meeting at Stanford, California, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. With a few important exceptions it was found at this meeting that most man-induced disturbances of ecosystems can be viewed as large scale patterns of disturbances that have occurred, generally on a small scale, in ecosystems through evolutionary time. Man has induced dramatic large-scale changes in the environment which must be viewed at the biosphere level. Acid deposition and CO increase are two 2 examples of the consequences of man's increased utilization of fossil fuels. It is a matter of considerable concern that we cannot yet fully predict the ecological consequences of these environmental changes. Such problems must be addressed at the international level, yet substantive mechanisms to do this are not available.

Author : Richard C. Rothermel
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 18,69 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Forest fires
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Daily fire growth maps display the growth of the 1988 fires in the Greater Yellowstone Area. Information and data sources included daily infrared photography flights, satellite imagery, ground and aerial reconnaissance, command center intelligence, and the personal recollections of fire behavior observers. Fire position was digitized from topographic maps using GRASS GIS software to construct a file of daily fire location in vector format, later converted to raster format for further analysis. The data base is available in electronic form.

Author : Karen Wildung Reinhart
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 46,63 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781560374787

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In text and photographs, Reinhart examines the 1988 Yellowstone fires and their aftermath: smoke-shrouded skies, flaming forests, and fireballs that have been replaced by wildflowers, aspen stands, and rare Bicknell's geraniums. Reinhart also explores what the answers are to the burning questions of 1988: Would fire kill Yellowstone's forests? Would wildlife populations recover? Would Yellowstone itself recover?