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Author: Jay Russell Bentley Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780267047383 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 20
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Excerpt from The Fuel-Break System for the San Dimas Experimental Forest The San Dimas Experimental Forest is maintained by the Forest Service, u.s. Department of Agriculture in cooperation with the California Division of Forestry. Since 1947 this has been a joint research project with the California Division of Forestry, which participates in program planning and provides financial support. Other long-term cooperators are the Los Angeles County Flood Control District, the Los Angeles County Fire Department, and the University of California, which provide staff or other support or use research facilities at the experimental forest. Special recognition is due these agencies and the California Department of water Resources for assistance with emergency rehabilita tion work after a wildfire in July 1960. Their cooperation made it possible to restore experimental facilities and start emergency research on methods of managing Chaparral watersheds for more effective control of fires, floods and erosion, and water yield. 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: Jay Russell Bentley Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780267047383 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 20
Book Description
Excerpt from The Fuel-Break System for the San Dimas Experimental Forest The San Dimas Experimental Forest is maintained by the Forest Service, u.s. Department of Agriculture in cooperation with the California Division of Forestry. Since 1947 this has been a joint research project with the California Division of Forestry, which participates in program planning and provides financial support. Other long-term cooperators are the Los Angeles County Flood Control District, the Los Angeles County Fire Department, and the University of California, which provide staff or other support or use research facilities at the experimental forest. Special recognition is due these agencies and the California Department of water Resources for assistance with emergency rehabilita tion work after a wildfire in July 1960. Their cooperation made it possible to restore experimental facilities and start emergency research on methods of managing Chaparral watersheds for more effective control of fires, floods and erosion, and water yield. 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: John McPhee Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 0374708495 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 272
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While John McPhee was working on his previous book, Rising from the Plains, he happened to walk by the engineering building at the University of Wyoming, where words etched in limestone said: "Strive on--the control of Nature is won, not given." In the morning sunlight, that central phrase--"the control of nature"--seemed to sparkle with unintended ambiguity. Bilateral, symmetrical, it could with equal speed travel in opposite directions. For some years, he had been planning a book about places in the world where people have been engaged in all-out battles with nature, about (in the words of the book itself) "any struggle against natural forces--heroic or venal, rash or well advised--when human beings conscript themselves to fight against the earth, to take what is not given, to rout the destroying enemy, to surround the base of Mt. Olympus demanding and expecting the surrender of the gods." His interest had first been sparked when he went into the Atchafalaya--the largest river swamp in North America--and had learned that virtually all of its waters were metered and rationed by a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' project called Old River Control. In the natural cycles of the Mississippi's deltaic plain, the time had come for the Mississippi to change course, to shift its mouth more than a hundred miles and go down the Atchafalaya, one of its distributary branches. The United States could not afford that--for New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and all the industries that lie between would be cut off from river commerce with the rest of the nation. At a place called Old River, the Corps therefore had built a great fortress--part dam, part valve--to restrain the flow of the Atchafalaya and compel the Mississippi to stay where it is. In Iceland, in 1973, an island split open without warning and huge volumes of lava began moving in the direction of a harbor scarcely half a mile away. It was not only Iceland's premier fishing port (accounting for a large percentage of Iceland's export economy) but it was also the only harbor along the nation's southern coast. As the lava threatened to fill the harbor and wipe it out, a physicist named Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson suggested a way to fight against the flowing red rock--initiating an all-out endeavor unique in human history. On the big island of Hawaii, one of the world's two must eruptive hot spots, people are not unmindful of the Icelandic example. McPhee went to Hawaii to talk with them and to walk beside the edges of a molten lake and incandescent rivers. Some of the more expensive real estate in Los Angeles is up against mountains that are rising and disintegrating as rapidly as any in the world. After a complex coincidence of natural events, boulders will flow out of these mountains like fish eggs, mixed with mud, sand, and smaller rocks in a cascading mass known as debris flow. Plucking up trees and cars, bursting through doors and windows, filling up houses to their eaves, debris flows threaten the lives of people living in and near Los Angeles' famous canyons. At extraordinary expense the city has built a hundred and fifty stadium-like basins in a daring effort to catch the debris. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking in his vivid depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those who would attempt to wrest control from her--stubborn, often ingenious, and always arresting characters.
Author: Devendra Amatya Publisher: CABI ISBN: 1780646607 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 309
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Forests cover approximately 26% of the world's land surface area and represent a distinct biotic community. They interact with water and soil in a variety of ways, providing canopy surfaces which trap precipitation and allow evaporation back into the atmosphere, thus regulating how much water reaches the forest floor as through fall, as well as pull water from the soil for transpiration. The discipline "forest hydrology" has been developed throughout the 20th century. During that time human intervention in natural landscapes has increased, and land use and management practices have intensified. The book will be useful for graduate students, professionals, land managers, practitioners, and researchers with a good understanding of the basic principles of hydrology and hydrologic processes.
Author: Jay Russell Bentley
Author: Jay Russell Bentley
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Author: Jay R. Bentley
Author: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station (U.S.)
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Author: Devendra Amatya