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Moser, Smol, Lean, MacDonald
Physical and chemical variables were measured in 35 lakes from Wood Buffalo National Park, northern Alberta and the Northwest Territories, Canada. Of these lakes, 22 were sinkholes, situated on limestone and gypsum, five were situated on the…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Kaye, Hart
Ponderosa pine-bunchgrass ecosystems of the western United States were altered following Euro-American settlement as grazing and fire suppression facilitated pine invasion of grassy openings. Pine invasion changed stand structure and fire regimes,…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Flannigan, Wotton, Richard, Carcaillet, Bergeron
Introduction...'Fire and climate are closely linked (Swetnam 1993). According to simulations of various general circulation models (GCMs), the earth's climate will be 1-3.5º C warmer by the end of the next century due to increasing atmospheric…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Habeck
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Year: 1972
Type: Document
Simard, Forster
'One of the most dramatic technological breakthroughs in forest fire suppression in recent years has been the development and use of airtankers...World War II surplus aircraft were available at a modest cost and many forest fire protection agencies…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Komarek
From the text (p.502) ... 'There are a few generalities that may be pointed out from a perusal of many of these experiments [on use of fire] that were and are being conducted from East Africa to South Africa. 1) Fire is a controlling agent in the…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Walker, Stocks
Two wildfires in Ontario in 1971 are analyzed with respect to fire weather, fuel conditions and fire behavior, including rate of spread, fuel consumption and fire intensity. No attempt is made to assess suppression techniques or to discuss fire…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Dodge
Discusses the problem caused by accumulation of forest fuels in the wild-land forests of the western USA under the policy of total fire protection pursued there for many years, and emphasizes the need to find economical and practical ways of…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
A collection of papers, including: History of fire in North America (G.F. White; 24 ref.); Fire as an ecological factor in boreal forest ecosystems of Canada (G.W. Scotter; 57 ref.); The significance of forest fires in Mexico (J. Vasquez Soto);…
Year: 1972
Type: Document