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Wildland-Urban Fire—A Different Approach
Wildland-Urban Fire–A Different Approach – by Jack D. Cohen, Rocky Mountain Research Station, U.S. Forest Service Wildland-urban fire occurs when a fire burning in wildland vegetation fuels gets close enough with its flames and/or firebrands (lofted burning embers) to potentially create ignitions of the residential fuels (Butler 1974). Residential fire destruction is the principal problem during wildland-urban fires,…
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Wind Drives All Large Blazes
Wind Drives All Large Blazes – by George Wuerthner As large fires have spread across the West in recent decades, we hear increasing demands to reduce fuels—typically through logging. But logging won’t reduce the large fires we are experiencing because fuels do not drive large fires. You can have tons of fuel per acre as…
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The Ecological Importance of California’s Rim Fire
The Ecological Importance of California’s Rim Fire – by Chad Hanson, John Muir Project Photo: Doug Bevington Since the Rim fire began in the central Sierra Nevada on August 17, there has been a steady stream of fearful, hyperbolic, and misinformed reporting in much of the media. The fire, which is currently 188,000 acres in size and covers…
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