Sentences with phrase «of wildland»

Find maps are at the core of any Wildland Search and Rescue (WiSAR) operation.

International Journal of Wildland Fire.

Arnold Schwarzenegger joins an elite team of wildland firefighters as they battle a new breed of forest fire, one made more deadly by climate change.

Ranches varied in the amount and variety of wildland - from having only five species of mostly very young trees, to having 18 different species of tree, ranging from saplings to established, closed canopy forest.

However destruction of wildland habitats to make way for agriculture continues to erode the amount of carbon stored in the biomass and soil.

Completion of treatments in the first analysis area of the 4FRI project could have a multiplying effect on maintaining forest resilience if the thinning itself allows for increased use of wildland fire or prescribed fire over many more hectares.

A recent study in the International Journal of Wildland Fire closed in on the optimal strategy: «The role of defensible space for residential structure protection during wildfires.»

Josh Brolin stars as the leader of a crew of wildland firefighters called the Granite Mountain Hotshots in «Only the Brave.»

A new film, based on the true story of one group of wildland firefighters, is out in theaters this week.

Find maps are at the core of any Wildland Search and Rescue (WiSAR) operation.

International Journal of Wildland Fire 22:1003 — 20.

These are some the questions posed and partially answered in a study published in the International Journal of Wildland Fire.

Dr. Thomas Zimmerman, President, International Association of Wildland Fire, describes the book as «powerful and thought - provoking.»

Tom Zimmerman, the president of the International Association of Wildland Fire, said it best: «Business as usual is not going to be successful.»

And as climate change further amplifies wildfire hazards, how can residents of the wildland - urban interface adjust?

The study by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is the most comprehensive examination in history of a wildland urban interface (WUI) fire.

Nevertheless, the number, the size, and the intensity of wildland fires are increasing, such is the backlog of fuels.

Common examples are the initiation of fires on upholstered furniture by weak heat sources (e.g. a cigarette, a short - circuited wire), and the persistent combustion of biomass behind the flaming front of wildland fires.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — It took less than 10 minutes for a U.N. panel to unanimously reject Australia's controversial bid to remove 74,039 hectares of wildlands in Tasmania from a designated World Heritage Site.

«This is the first time in Canada, and quite possibly the world, where a government is creating a law that intends to protect carbon,» said Janet Sumner, president of the Wildlands League, an Ontario non-profit.

Science also shows that wolves are important for restoring the ecological health of our wildlands.

Add this to the ending of the Wildlands Splinter Cell mission, and it seems pretty likely that Ubisoft is hinting at another Splinter Cell game in the works.

A continuous theme within the design and gameplay of Wildlands is freedom of choice.

Travis Longcore, science director of the wildlands group, said the main objection was that trap - neuter - release was «the only way» animal services was going to deal with the problem.

Ubisoft will release «Ghost War» on Oct. 10 for all owners of Wildlands.

Discover the stunning diverse landscapes of the Wildlands both on and off road, in the air, on land, and at sea with over 60 different vehicles.

Fallen Ghosts takes place after the main story of Wildlands.

In an article earlier this year we wrote a bit about what you can expect from the game, so I've listed a quick description of Wildlands below in case you've been living under a rock and don't yet know about this awesome game!

This video is for the upcoming LIGHTNING RETURNS: FINAL FANTASY XIII, narrated by game design director Yuji Abe, & showcases the wide, open spaces of The Wildlands.

New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Carbon Balance and Management shows that maintenance of wildlands in and among vineyards significantly increases carbon storage.

The mission of Friends of Browns Canyon (FOBC) is «To protect, conserve, and enhance the ecological and aquatic resources of the wildlands within Browns Canyon.»

Not exact matches

But wildland fires are increasingly destructive and costly in terms of lives and property, requiring substantial investments in wildfire suppression.

We promote standards for sustainability that conserve wildlife and wildlands and promote the well - being of workers and their communities.

Since the pollution concentration decreases from west to east, as the distance from Los Angeles increases, the forests offered a rare opportunity to compare emissions from wildland fuels subjected to different levels of chronic air pollution.

These future projections of permafrost distribution, however, did not include other possible future disturbances in the future, such as wildland fires.

Concerns about peat fires worsening climate change Mike Flannigan, director of the University of Alberta's Western Partnership for Wildland Fire Science who was not involved with the analysis, said it's important to note that wildfires are a part of northern boreal forests» ecology.

The outlook this summer is sobering: Wildland fire potential for most of coastal California and the Sierra Nevada Mountains is above normal and is expected to remain that way through October, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.

The mixture of houses, flashy fuels, and brush fields in full view of a large metropolitan area adds significantly to the challenges and complexity of even the smallest wildland fire.»

The Forest Service calls its border with Tucson the wildland - urban interface, and in practice no fire is allowed to get near it because of the roads and homes there.

Wildland fire use, in the terminology of the Forest Service, means not doing anything to put out a fire.

Another stakeholder at the meeting was Paul Summerfelt, a wildland fire management officer for the city of Flagstaff who runs the city's watershed protection project.

«The wildland fuels are like the edges of a page — they get ignited very, very quickly from contact with flames,» he said.

The threat to caribou is just one of many detailed in the 2008 - 2009 edition of the Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) State of the Wild: A Global Portrait of Wildlife, Wildlands, and Oceans, which assesses «where we think we are and where we think we can be,» says Steven Sanderson, WCS president and CEO.

In May, the agency issued a release saying that it anticipated another «active fire year, as above normal wildland fire potential exists across the north central United States and above normal wildland fire potential will threaten many parts of the West this summer.»

A new study of Colorado's devastating 2012 Waldo Canyon wildfire demonstrates that prompt and effective action can significantly change the outcome of fires that occur in areas where residential communities and undeveloped wildlands meet.

«This model makes the destruction of public lands unjustified,» says David Myers, executive director of nonprofit environmental group the Wildlands Conservancy.

Photo taken during the 2012 Waldo Canyon wildland urban interface (WUI) fire showing homes in a Colorado Springs, Colo., neighborhood that were ignited as a result of structure - to - structure fire spread, a distinguishing characteristic of WUI fires.

Anniversary coverage was much more likely to bring up policy problems connected to the systemic causes of human vulnerability to wildfire hazards — development in the wildland - urban interface, legacies of wildfire suppression and climate change, to name a few examples.

Currently under study is the effect of shrubs as undergrowth in wildland fires, and how proximity and wind can influence their combustion characteristics.

(S. Ferguson, A. R. Dahale; B. Shotorban; S. Mahalingam; D. R. Weise, «The role of moisture on combustion of pyrolysis gases in wildland fires,» Combustion Science and Technology, 185: 435 - 453, 2013; and Yashwanth, B.L.; S. Ferguson; B. Shotorban; S. Mahalingam; D. R. Weise, «Numerical investigation of influence of moisture content on thermal behavior of heated wood,» Paper 070FR - 0208, presented at the 8th U.S. National Combustion Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, May 19 - 22, 2013)