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Bahre
From a Pacific Historical Review ... '..., it has long been presumed that changes in the region's climate have also contributed to vegetation change. Geographer Conrad Bahre now challenges the view that these vegetation changes are due to climatic…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Kourtz, Todd
Lightning causes one third of the 9000 wildfires that occur in Canada. Annually, these lightning-caused fires account for 90% of the area burned and cost Canadians at least 150 million dollars in suppression costs and values destroyed. Unlike the…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Van Wagner
This paper looks first at the kind of forest fire statistics that are currently available in Canada. The main statistics are number of fires area burned, causes, and control costs. Good inventory data on burned areas are not available. The recent…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
White, Fenton
The western national parks managed by the Canadian Parks Service (CPS) are dominated by fire dependent forests of lodgepole pine, spruce and trembling aspen. Values at risk and high-intensity fire regimes limit the acceptability of unscheduled (…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Bergeron
In order to characterize the fires regime of the southern boreal forest and to understand the way in which landscape and fire regime interact, a detailed study of fire history was undertaken in two adjacent contrasting landscapes in northwestern…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Sutherland, Covington, Andariese
Our objective was to model the radial growth response of individual ponderosa pines to prescribed burning in northern Arizona. We sampled 188 trees from two study areas, which were burned in 1976. Within each study area, control and burned trees…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Richardson, Bond
The question of which factors limit the occurrence of a plant species to a particular site is addressed by considering 53 cases in which the distribution of pines (Pinus species: Pinaceae) has changed in the last century. We consider expansions of…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Viney
Models describing the moisture content of forest fuels are an integral component of most fire behaviour prediction systems. In this paper, models of all aspects of moisture change in fine, dead, surface litter are examined and reviewed. Included are…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Radke, Hegg, Hobbs, Nance, Lyons, Laursen, Weiss, Riggan, Ward
n this chapter we describe the results of airborne studies of smokes from 17 biomass fuel fires, including 14 prescribed fires and 3 wildfires, burned primarily in the temperate zone of North America between 34° and 49°N latitude. The prescribed…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Ferguson
In the past it was not uncommon to close access to large areas of the mountains for long periods of time because of avalanche dangers. Now, modern management of mountainous areas is requiring roads to be kept open longer, larger areas for skiing be…
Year: 1991
Type: Document