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E-book Wildland Fire Smoke in the United States : A Scientific Assessment

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Humans have a long history of using fire and it is difficult to separate humaninfluence from the natural occurrence of fire on the landscape (Pyne1997). Forcenturies, Native Americans used fire as a tool for multiple purposes, includingagriculture, managing wildlife habitat and hunting grounds, and cultural practices.As a result of lightning fires and Native American burning, as well as agriculturalclearing fires by European settlers, dense and extended periods of smoke were a fairlycommon occurrence prior to 1900 in many places in the USA. In the 1800s, smokefrom wildland and agricultural fires in Oregon hindered navigation on the ColumbiaRiver and was credited with contributing to increased illness (Pyne1997).The practice of suppressing most wildfires was introduced in the late 1800s.Over time, this policy has contributed to elevated fuel loadings that are one factorcontributing to increasing fire size in recent years (Ryan et al.2013). Fire suppression(and other forms of fire exclusion [e.g., agriculture]) have meant that up until about1990, less fire has occurred on the landscape than in pre-European settlement times(Leenhouts1998), resulting in less smoke in the air (Brown and Bradshaw1994).Recent episodes of smoke across the USA in the last two decades have been driven bylarge wildfires, and this may be, to some extent, a return to conditions that have not existed since the implementation of widespread fire suppression. A key challenge forforest managers therefore is how to address the fuel accumulation that has occurredas a result of fire suppression (Calkin et al.2015), while addressing the potentialimpacts of smoke on a growing human population.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

577 JAF w

Penerbit

Switzerland : Springer Nature., 2022

Deskripsi Fisik

346 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783030870454

Klasifikasi

577

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Ecology

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