* In New Mexico, 4,000 trees will help reforest urban and rural areas
burned in Los Alamos during the 2000 fires.
The Day After
"At our current [prescribed burning] pace, I feel we're treating about one-tenth the acres that were
burned in 1900 through the natural process," says Dave Bunnell, who coordinates the Forest Service's prescribed-fire program from the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho.
Fighting fire with fire
So far, workers in these parks have
burned about 25,000 acres.
Burning questions: sifting through the ashes for a verdict on Yosemite's 'prescribed burns.' (Cover Story)
The upshot: By the mid-1970s, courtesy of Smokey Bear and the publicists who helped keep the money rolling in from Congress to finance impressive new firefighting technologies, the number of forest fires was cut in half and the number of acres
burned reduced to one-eighth of the wartime average.
Smokey's revenge
With their tops
burned, new trees and plants sprout with vigor from roots that survive below ground, Varley says.
After the flames: awaiting the regeneration of Yellowstone
Before the days of chemical pesticides, tobacco farmers
burned their crop beds every year to kill weeds and insects; a fire in a field abutting the forest could easily spread.
The great anti-fire campaign
Conflagrations erupted all across the rain-starved West last summer, but Yellowstone's flames
burned brightest in the media, in part because of the monumental war waged against the uncontrollable infernos.
Lessons from the flames: scientists ponder how 1988 burned a hole in their theories about forest fires in Yellowstone
According to Levine, microbes living in the
burned soil produce these two gases.
Legacy of fire: the soil strikes back
Bonnicksen uses that statement to prove" that the acreage
burned could have been substantially reduced by prescribed burning in the years before 1988.
Replies from the fire gods
Unless it is periodically
burned, such a shrubby forest will develop into acres of natural kindling, awaiting only the first errant spark, lit match or lightning bolt to blaze out of control.
Fiery probe of environmental problems
At several places along the route, I parked and stepped out into some heavily
burned areas.
Lodgepole & the Yellowstone fires
And when smoke churns around inside a stove, it's more likely to get
burned.
Woodburning's new age
Brown had stated earlier, "To manage for a natural role of fire, planned ignitions, in my view, are necessary to deal with fuels and topography that have high potential for fire to escape established boundaries." Thus, if only a fraction of the hundreds of millions of dollars used to fight the Yellowstone wildfires had been spent on scientific management that utilized prescribed burning, it is likely that the wildfires would not have
burned 1.4 million acres, especially if vigorous suppression efforts had been undertaken by the Park Service when each of the conflagrations began.
Fire gods and federal policy
It can also soothe
burned skin, easing some of the pain.
What home remedies can treat my burn?
Body parts generally
burned in a tandoor injury are the head and upper extremities.
A Retrospective Analysis of Tandoor Burn Injuries in Eastern Anatolia