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Paperback Mimicking Nature's Fire: Restoring Fire-Prone Forests in the West Book

ISBN: 1559631430

ISBN13: 9781559631433

Mimicking Nature's Fire: Restoring Fire-Prone Forests in the West

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The magnificent stands of old-growth trees that characterize the forests of western North America depend on periodic fires for their creation or survival. Deprived of that essential disturbance process eventually they die, leaving an overcrowded growth of smaller trees vulnerable to intense blazes and epidemics of insects and disease.

In Mimicking Nature's Fire, forest ecologists Stephen Arno and Carl Fiedler present practical solutions...

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Mimicking Nature's Fire

Excellent book, filled with intriguing ideas. The authors look at a wide range of fire dependent forest vegetation types and use extensive case studies. This provides some good templates of what can be done in various types of forests. This will book will probably raise the hackles of both the "log it all" and the "no logging at all" extremes. The biggest weakness of this book is that the authors do not address the juniper/pinyon pine woodlands/forests which are also critical components of the western landscape.
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