"Considers the long history of ecological burns, the varied ways fire behaves across the state, and the lessons that can be learned from California's largest fires of recent decades"--
"Considers the long history of ecological burns, the varied ways fire behaves across the state, and the lessons that can be learned from California's largest fires of recent decades"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Obi Kaufmann is the author of The California Field Atlas (2017, #1 San Francisco Chronicle Best Seller), The State of Water (2019), The Forests of California (2020), The Coasts of California (2022), and The Deserts of California (2023), all published by Heyday. When he is not backpacking, you can find the painter-poet at home in the East Bay, posting trail paintings at his handle @coyotethunder on Instagram. His speaking tour dates are available at californiafieldatlas.com, and his essays are posted at coyoteandthunder.com. He lives in Oakland, CA.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction * Searching for Nature in the Anthropocene: Spring in Whiskeytown * Map—Carr Fire and Whiskeytown National Recreation Area * Map—California Counties * Map—National Forests in California * Map—California's Major Watersheds Part One: Fire History * Endemic/Indigenous Pyrosymbiosis: The evolution of fire in California * Pyrodiversity and Biodiversity: Resiliency and postfire ecological response * A Tragedy of Misconceptions: When the wilderness is not wild * Cultural Fire on the Land: Traditional ecological knowledge * Colonial Conflagration: Genocide and ecocide * The Coming of Modern Megafire: Why and how now is different * The Century of Reset and Reckoning: California fire in the twenty-first century * Map—North Coast and Klamath Regions * Map—Bay Area and Sonoma-Berryessa Regions * Map—Central Coast Region * Map—Santa Barbara Coast and Mountain Region * Map—South Coast Region with Transverse and Peninsula Ranges * Map—California's Southeastern Deserts * Map—Southern Sierra Nevada * Map—Northern Sierra Nevada * Map—Northeast Region and Cascade Ranges Part Two: Fire Ecology * Cascading Patterns and Emergence: The (new) ecology of fire * Succession and conversion: Fire's ecological energy release * Patterns of vulnerability and resilience: Bioregional Fire Ecology * —North Coast and North Coast Ranges Bioregion * —Klamath Mountain Bioregion * —Southern Cascades Bioregion * —Northeastern Plateaus Bioregion * —Sierra Nevada Bioregion * —Central Valley Bioregion * —South Coast Bioregion * —Southern Eastern Deserts Bioregion * Abundance and variation: How fire affects animals * Dependency and enhancement: How fire affects plants Part Three: Fire Principles * World on Fire: California climate breakdown by the numbers * Fire Is the Hunter: Human culpability, fire threat, and fire design * A Policy of Prescription: Opportunities and challenges in normalizing wildland fire * Repair, Restore, and Reciprocate: A vision of California in the balance * Between Tradition and Innovation: A better story for fire Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography About the Author
Introduction * Searching for Nature in the Anthropocene: Spring in Whiskeytown * Map—Carr Fire and Whiskeytown National Recreation Area * Map—California Counties * Map—National Forests in California * Map—California's Major Watersheds Part One: Fire History * Endemic/Indigenous Pyrosymbiosis: The evolution of fire in California * Pyrodiversity and Biodiversity: Resiliency and postfire ecological response * A Tragedy of Misconceptions: When the wilderness is not wild * Cultural Fire on the Land: Traditional ecological knowledge * Colonial Conflagration: Genocide and ecocide * The Coming of Modern Megafire: Why and how now is different * The Century of Reset and Reckoning: California fire in the twenty-first century * Map—North Coast and Klamath Regions * Map—Bay Area and Sonoma-Berryessa Regions * Map—Central Coast Region * Map—Santa Barbara Coast and Mountain Region * Map—South Coast Region with Transverse and Peninsula Ranges * Map—California's Southeastern Deserts * Map—Southern Sierra Nevada * Map—Northern Sierra Nevada * Map—Northeast Region and Cascade Ranges Part Two: Fire Ecology * Cascading Patterns and Emergence: The (new) ecology of fire * Succession and conversion: Fire's ecological energy release * Patterns of vulnerability and resilience: Bioregional Fire Ecology * —North Coast and North Coast Ranges Bioregion * —Klamath Mountain Bioregion * —Southern Cascades Bioregion * —Northeastern Plateaus Bioregion * —Sierra Nevada Bioregion * —Central Valley Bioregion * —South Coast Bioregion * —Southern Eastern Deserts Bioregion * Abundance and variation: How fire affects animals * Dependency and enhancement: How fire affects plants Part Three: Fire Principles * World on Fire: California climate breakdown by the numbers * Fire Is the Hunter: Human culpability, fire threat, and fire design * A Policy of Prescription: Opportunities and challenges in normalizing wildland fire * Repair, Restore, and Reciprocate: A vision of California in the balance * Between Tradition and Innovation: A better story for fire Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography About the Author
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