I feel the foolhardiness again in Yellowstone National Park, where the bleak devastation of 1988 forest fires creates an otherworldly backdrop to blue mists rising from hot springs and geysers.
Years ago, because we believed we were sufficiently wise to rework nature, we began fighting forest fires, creating the bomb that now must be defused.
While the crown fires create preferable habitats for pine and birch colonization, spruce is completely intolerant even to ground fires (Korchagin 1954).
The Loyalists attempted to set fires, creating a smokescreen they could use to approach the stockade.
Parched forests are vulnerable to forest fires, creating a terrifying and often deadly situation for nearby residents, ever-vigilant for the smell of smoke in the air.
Large fires create their own microclimates as they suck all the oxygen out of the air; an engine needs extra oxygen at initial ignition.
Each fire is unique in that different fires create different 'habitats', but habitats vary unpredictably in time due to stochasticity in the fire regime, thus preventing local community stability via competitor dominance or deterministic succession dynamics [23].
Our threshold criterion assumes that fires create charcoal peaks that exceed Cpeak variations related to sediment mixing, sediment sampling, and analytical noise, and that this variability changes on time scales ≥500 years.
