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Longleaf forests once covered 92 million acres from Texas to Maryland to Florida. These grand old-growth pines were the "alpha tree" of the largest forest ecosystem in North America and have come to define the southern forest. But a complex web of factors has reduced those forests so that longleaf is now found only on 3 million acres. Fortunately, longleaf forests are once again spreading across the South. This book invites readers to experience the...
14) Science findings
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"A long-awaited memoir from an award-winning novelist--a candid, riveting account of her complicated, bohemian childhood and her return home to care for her ailing mother. In March 2020, Martha McPhee, her husband, and their two almost-grown children set out for her childhood home in New Jersey, where she finds herself grappling simultaneously with a mother slipping into severe dementia and a house that's been neglected of late. As Martha works to...
18) Firescience.gov
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A "one-stop source to access fire science information, resources and funding announcements for scientists, fire practitioners and decision makers." Provides descriptions of ongiong and completed fire science research projects. Includes full texts of its digests, briefs, and research syntheses, and its newsletter, Friday Flash eNews.
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Addressing wildfire is not simply a fire management, fire operations, or wildland-urban interface problem--it is a larger, more complex land management and societal issue. The vision for the next century is to: Safely and effectively extinguish fire, when needed; use fire where allowable; manage our natural resources; and as a Nation, live with wildland fire.
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