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kjgross's review
3.75
First 1/3 and conclusion chapter are great.
Fire suppression has allowed ladder fuel to grow. Now plus climate change = hotter deadlier fires.
Fire suppression has allowed ladder fuel to grow. Now plus climate change = hotter deadlier fires.
Replanting mono species “winner” is not good. Must be a panel.
Build better WUI protections. Need high % of community participating. Brush clearing, keeping gutters clear, new vents/screens that prevent embers entry. Less flamable plants that are well hydrated. Water reserve on roof for use w/o power. Fire proof roof/siding. High heat rated double/triple glass panes. Community design for buffers outside the community.
Proactive burns and let lightning fires burn help burn smaller, leaving many trees, and have lower severity future fires. Smoke from proactive burns is less harmful than wild fires.
Proof will be hard bc climate change happening.
Jobs: fire ecologists, fire managers. Headwaters economics - Montana think tank. CPA’s and planningforwildfire.org
kpeps's review
informative
slow-paced
3.75
A great look at the coming dangers to pine forests though I did find it a bit one dimensional at times.
renae064's review
I picked up this book because I'm interested in how climate change affects wildfires and because I live in the American West, but I really knew nothing about trees or forest management. I couldn't even tell the difference between pine, spruce, cedar, and fir.
That said, this book was incredibly informative. I got lost once in a while, especially when "low-severity," "mixed-severity," and "high-severity" got thrown around with all the other fire terms, and I had to image search many, many trees, plants, and birds to better visualize what was going on (but I enjoyed that part). However, I loved the chapters on bark beetles, how scientists are breeding resistant trees, dendrochronology, and the longevity of the Great Basin bristlecone pines. I also appreciated discussions of how best to fire-proof homes and reduce wildfire risk to communities.
This is a book everyone should read, especially those who live in the West. Even if you think it doesn't, wildfire affects everyone, whether directly from fire or less directly from air pollution and wildfire smoke or contaminated water supplies. Also, trees are just interesting :)
As an aside, I loved the ending reference to shinrin'yoku. I've studied Japanese culture for years and never heard of this.
That said, this book was incredibly informative. I got lost once in a while, especially when "low-severity," "mixed-severity," and "high-severity" got thrown around with all the other fire terms, and I had to image search many, many trees, plants, and birds to better visualize what was going on (but I enjoyed that part). However, I loved the chapters on bark beetles, how scientists are breeding resistant trees, dendrochronology, and the longevity of the Great Basin bristlecone pines. I also appreciated discussions of how best to fire-proof homes and reduce wildfire risk to communities.
This is a book everyone should read, especially those who live in the West. Even if you think it doesn't, wildfire affects everyone, whether directly from fire or less directly from air pollution and wildfire smoke or contaminated water supplies. Also, trees are just interesting :)
As an aside, I loved the ending reference to shinrin'yoku. I've studied Japanese culture for years and never heard of this.
timbre's review
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
3.0
Very informative but it's dense, dense in a slow and sometimes boring way. Rather unfortunate as the topic is dear to my heart, had to push myself to finish this
hannyreads's review
3.0
I learned a lot about pines and all their modern ailments. However the book is a bit disorganized and dry. I found myself wishing there were more illustrations on the topics written about for us non tree scientists.