Author: Charles E. HardyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest fire
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The Gisborne Era of Forest Fire Research
Author: Charles E. HardyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest fire
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
General Technical Report RMRS
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Gisborne Era of Forest Fire Research
Author: Charles E. HardyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Plant Community Classification for Alpine Vegetation on the Beaverhead National Forest, Montana
Author: Stephen V. CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
Vegetation, Nesting Bird, and Small Mammal Characteristics--Wet Creek, Idaho
Author: Warren P. ClaryPublisher:
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
General Technical Report INT
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Young Men and Fire
Author: Norman MacleanPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226501035
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts back together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy. Young Men and Fire won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992. "A magnificent drama of writing, a tragedy that pays tribute to the dead and offers rescue to the living.... Maclean's search for the truth, which becomes an exploration of his own mortality, is more compelling even than his journey into the heart of the fire. His description of the conflagration terrifies, but it is his battle with words, his effort to turn the story of the 13 men into tragedy that makes this book a classic."—from New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, Best Books of 1992 "A treasure: part detective story, part western, part tragedy, part elegy and wholly eloquent ghost story in which the dead and the living join ranks cheerfully, if sometimes eerily, in a search for truth and the rest it brings."—Joseph Coates, Chicago Tribune "An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and firefighting, a powerful, breathtakingly real reconstruction of a tragedy, and a meditation on writing, grief and human character.... Maclean's last book will stir your heart and haunt your memory."—Timothy Foote, USA Today "Beautiful.... A dark American idyll of which the language can be proud."—Robert M. Adams, The New York Review of Books "Young Men and Fire is redolent of Melville. Just as the reader of Moby Dick comes to comprehend the monstrous entirety of the great white whale, so the reader of Young Men and Fire goes into the heart of the great red fire and comes out thoroughly informed. Don't hesitate to take the plunge."—Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post Book World "Young Men and Fire is a somber and poetic retelling of a tragic event. It is the pinnacle of smokejumping literature and a classic work of 20th-century nonfiction."—John Holkeboer, The Wall Street Journal "Maclean is always with the brave young dead. . . . They could not have found a storyteller with a better claim to represent their honor. . . . A great book."—James R. Kincaid, New York Times Book Review
USDA Forest Service Experimental Forests and Ranges
Author: Deborah C. HayesPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1461418186
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
USDA Forest Service Experimental Forests and Ranges (EFRs) are scientific treasures, providing secure, protected research sites where complex and diverse ecological processes are studied over the long term. This book offers several examples of the dynamic interactions among questions of public concern or policy, EFR research, and natural resource management practices and policies. Often, trends observed – or expected -- in the early years of a research program are contradicted or confounded as the research record extends over decades. The EFRs are among the few areas in the US where such long-term research has been carried out by teams of scientists. Changes in society’s needs and values can also redirect research programs. Each chapter of this book reflects the interplay between the ecological results that emerge from a long-term research project and the social forces that influence questions asked and resources invested in ecological research. While these stories include summaries and syntheses of traditional research results, they offer a distinctly new perspective, a larger and more complete picture than that provided by a more typical 5-year study. They also provide examples of long-term research on EFRs that have provided answers for questions not even imagined at the time the study was installed.