Gary Ferguson

“There is much at stake with this loss of land management and science capacity, “ says Topik (Christopher Topik of the Nature Conservancy). “Forestlands provide half of our nation’s water and sequester about 13 percent of total US fossil fuel carbon emissions, but projections suggest that forest will become net carbon emitters later this century if steps are not take to make them more resilient..' "

I read this as part of the Glacier Conservancy Book Club.

A summary of wildfire, how it is fought, current thoughts on how fire is important to ecosystems and what global warming will mean to wildland fires.

Pretty straight forward. Since I live in an area impacted by wildfires, there wasn’t much information new to me, but it’s nice to see it together in one place.… (altro)