Winds topple trees, spark fires in Central OregonBy JONATHAN J. COOPER
Without periodic fire, fire-adapted plant communities across the Central Hardwood Forest Region (CHF) in the USA have undergone significant changes in forest structure and species composition, most notably a decrease in oak regeneration and herbaceous diversity and an increase in shade-tolerant, fire-...
In addition to California, wildfires have ravaged parts of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington in recent months. According to the agriculture department, fire seasons are 78 days longer today than they were in the 1970s. This year, there have been more than 46,000 fires and since ...
中石油2016通用英语选读课文59Forest Fires-a Major Disaster森林大火-可怕的灾难 59. Forest Fires: a Major Disaster 森林大火：可怕的灾难 1.The United States Forest Service<林业局> defines a wildfire<野火，山火> as “any fire that burns uncontrolled in vegetative<adj植物的> or associated flammable<...
It happened when the Tillamook fire in Oregon in 1933 killed as much timber as was cut in the entire United States the preceding year. It happened in Maine in 1947 when forest fires destroyed more than 800 homes. And it5s still happening today. A serie 15、s of dry years recently ...
“Certain utilities might no longer attract the savings of American citizens,” Buffett said in his annual letter to investors in his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Berkshire’s PacifiCorp utility facesclaims of about $8 billion from fires in Oregon and Californiathat lawsuits blame on the utility’s ...
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Influence of Fires, Fungi and Mountain Pine Beetles on Development of a Lodgepole Pine Forest in South-Central OregonRobert GaraWR LittkeJames AgeeC H Driver
The Lake States experienced unprecedented land use changes during Euro-American settlement including large, destructive fires. Forest changes were radical in this region and largely attributed to anomalous settlement era fires in slash (cumulation of top