How national parks manage fire risk.(USA)Officials at the Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Park in California adopted an unusual wildfire policy four decades ago: When possible, they'd let fire be fire.Dotinga, Randy
Four firefighters were hospitalized after being struck by a falling tree in Sequoia National Park. The firefighters had been trying to contain the KNP Complex Fire in Sequoia National Park in Tulare County. They had to be airlifted out of the fire zone, but have since been released from the...
Nesmith, J. C. B., Das, A. J., Hara, K. L. O. & Mantgem, P. J. V. The influence of prefire tree growth and crown condition on postfire mortality of sugar pine following prescribed fire in Sequoia National Park.919, 910–919 (2015). Keane, R. E., Loehman, R. A. & Ho...
The KNP complex has led to the closure of Sequoia National Park and the evacuation of parts of the nearby community of Three Rivers. Fire officials told The Los Angeles Times on September 15 that the blazes were about a mile from the “Giant Forest,” the largest concentration of giant seq...
摘要: The relationship between historical fires and age structure was examined on three plots in red fir (Abiesmagnifica var. shastensis Lemm.) forests within Sequoia National Park, California, U.S.A. Al...DOI: 10.1139/X87-098 年份: 1987 ...
FIRE AND MAN IN SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK* Aboriginal Indian occupance of Sequoia National Park began about 1000 A. D. Periodic burning to aid in food gathering and lightning-caused fires led to the development of a vegetation cover considered to be "natural.''In the 1860s, a per... JL Van...
Regions with large, contiguous areas of likely restorative effects under both weather scenarios were observed primarily in Yosemite National Park, Sequoia National Park, and the upper elevation regions of several National Forests (Eldorado National Forest in particular). In Yosemite and Sequoia National...
Giant sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum [Lindl.] J. Buchholz) preserve a detailed history of fire within their annual rings. We developed a 3000 year chronology of fire events in one of the largest extant groves of ancient giant sequoias, the Giant Fore
SQNF = Sequoia National Forest. SNF = Sierra National Forest. YNP = Yosemite National Park Full size image Conclusions This study supports the hypothesis that frequent, low-intensity TEK fires contributed to the pre-suppression conditions of open forests prior to the 1850s C.E., ...