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PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"NOVA tells the stories of residents who had to flee for their lives during the 2018 California fire season. Scientists race to understand what's behind the rise of the record-breaking megafires and investigate how forestry practices, climate change, and the physics of fire itself play a role in the dramatic increase in wildfires in recent decades."--Container.
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English
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The first lookouts were rustic camps on mountaintops, where men and women were stationed to keep an eye out for wildfires. As the importance of fire prevention grew, a lookout construction boom resulted in hundreds of cabins and towers being built on Oregon's high points. When aircraft and cameras became more cost-effective and efficient methods of fire detection, many old lookouts were abandoned or removed. Of the many hundreds of lookouts built...
6) Takeout
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Language
English
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War is being waged on the Amazon forest. Filmmaker Michal Siewierski embarks on a journey to expose the truth.
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Series
To the last smoke volume 2
Publisher
The University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"By its size, fire intensity, and institutional responses, California has long shaped the national agenda for wildland fire. From its early days, California decided for fire suppression. How and why this happened is the subject of this fire reconnaissance of America's Golden State for fire"--Provided by publisher.
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The History Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Over the past century, some of the world's largest wildland fires have occurred in Oregon. Accidentally set by a disgruntled cook on an English ship, the Great Fire of 1845 displaced multiple tribes and boiled wildlife alive in the Columbia River. The Tillamook Burn started up every 6 years from 1933 to 1951 and incited one of the largest reseeding efforts in the world with 72 million seedlings planted. The Long Draw Fire of 2012, the state's largest...
Publisher
Vision Video
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The Camp Fire has been designated the deadliest wildfire in California history. Now Camp Fire survivors tell their own real-life stories, and many re-enact the scenes which destroyed nearly 19,000 buildings, caused over 86 deaths in the first hours, and left 52,000 people fleeing for their lives. Some 250 volunteers have united to tell the story of the many civilians, firefighters, and law enforcement who jeopardized their own safety to save the lives...
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English
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Phillip Connors returns with the story of what drove him up to the tower in the first place: the wilderness years he spent reeling in the wake of a family tragedy. This is an unforgettable account of grappling with a shattered sense of purpose, from his family's failing pig farm in Minnesota to a crack-addled Brooklyn neighborhood to the mountains of New Mexico, where he puts the pieces of his life back together.
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English
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A rare inside look at the thrilling world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefighters who parachute into the most remote and rugged areas of the United States, confronting the growing threat of nature's blazes.
Forest and wildland fires are growing larger, more numerous, and deadlier every year - record drought conditions, decades of forestry mismanagement, and the increasing encroachment of residential housing into the wilderness have combined to...
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