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Biomass Industry Fans Flames of Wildfire Hysteria
Biomass Industry Fans Flames of Wildfire Hysteria California’s Rim fire, expected to be fully “contained” by October after igniting in Yosemite National Park on August 17, will ultimately benefit the forests it has passed through. While media accounts sensationalize such large wildfires as “catastrophic” and “disastrous,” science demonstrates that, to the contrary, fire is a vital component of…
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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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