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Why?
References
Fire yearsare more
FREQUENTand
INTENSE
Historically Large Wildfires in the Northern Rockies
1900 1910 19301920 19501940 19701960 1980 20001990
201020102010
LONGER Dry Season
HIGHER Spring & Summer
Temperatures
EARLIER Spring Snow
Melt
PRESCRIBED BURNING reduces ladderfuels, helping PROTECT from
tree-top fires.
BE INVOLVED in your community fire watch.
UNDERSTAND fire prevention techniques.
KNOW your land managers.
BE AWARE of fire prevention legislation.
SELECTIVE HARVESTING makes theforest more safe by CLEARING it of
excess fuels.
LIVESTOCK GRAZING reduces low-lyingfuels and LIMITS the spread
of wildfires.
Why?
Why?
Why?
What Can You Do?
Whats Happening?
Why?
What are Land Managers Doing?
Wildfires in the Northern Rockies
Westerling, A. L. "Warming and Earli er Spring Increase Western
U.S. Forest Wil dfire Activity." Science Magazine . 313. (2006):
940-943. Print. Westerling, A. L. "Continued warming could
transform Greater Yellowstone fire regimes by mid-21st century."
PNAS . 108.32 (2011): 13165-13170. Print. Hudak, Andrew T. "Review
of Fuel Treatment Effectiveness in Forests and Rangelands and a
Case Study From the 2007 Megafires in Central Idaho USA." Rocky
Mountain Research Station . (2011): 1-64. Print.
http://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/fireInfo_stats_histSigFires.html
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References
Fire yearsare more
FREQUENTand
SEVERE
Historically Large Wildfires in the Northern Rockies
1900 1910 19301920 19501940 19701960 1980 20001990
201020102010
LONGER Dry Season
HIGHER Spring & Summer
Temperatures
EARLIER Spring Snow
Melt
PRESCRIBED BURNING reduces ladderfuels, which reduces the
DANGERS of tree-top fires.
BE INVOLVED in your community fire watch.
UNDERSTAND fire prevention techniques.
KNOW your land managers.
BE AWARE of fire prevention legislation.
SELECTIVE HARVESTING combatsforests becoming OVERLOADED with
wildfire fuel.
LIVESTOCK GRAZING is used to eliminatelow-lying fuels and keep
wildfires from SPREADING .
What Can You Do?What are Land Managers Doing?
Whats Happening?
Why?
Wildfires in the Northern Rockies
Westerling, A. L. "Warming and Earli er Spring Increase Western
U.S. Forest Wil dfire Activity." Science Magazine . 313. (2006):
940-943. Print. Westerling, A. L. "Continued warming could
transform Greater Yellowstone fire regimes by mid-21st century."
PNAS . 108.32 (2011): 13165-13170. Print. Hudak, Andrew T. "Review
of Fuel Treatment Effectiveness in Forests and Rangelands and a
Case Study From the 2007 Megafires in Central Idaho USA." Rocky
Mountain Research Station . (2011): 1-64. Print.
http://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/fireInfo_stats_histSigFires.html
