May 2014 | Features
The long slow burn of smouldering peat mega-fires
From Indonesia to Botswana, from Scotland to North Carolina, peat mega-fires burn for months, destroy habitat, clog the air with haze, and…
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May 2014 | Features
Wildland Fire in Colorado: Technical Problems or Adaptive Challenges?
I took a look at the wildland fire situation in Colorado and asked, what critical factors are we not addressing?
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May 2014 | Features
Defend or evacuate? I’ll decide later
Research shows that residents need triggers to take different actions under a variety of conditions.
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May 2014 | Features
Why firefighters should embrace fire ecology
Without occasional fires throughout past centuries many of the valuable and iconic trees of American forests would have become scarce or absent
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May 2014 | Features
Talk the Walk: Fire Use in Large Fire Management
Re-articulating fire management as fire use
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May 2014 | Features
To shape a resilient forest, build our forest bioenergy industries
The full cost of California’s 2013 Rim Fire are arriving and they are staggering if they are to be believed. Federal and…
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