21. Forest Fires--Ecology Lesson Plan (grades 9-12)--DiscoverySchool.com students work in smaller groups of two or three and create a public service poster,brochure, or television spot on the dangers of accidental forest fires. http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/forestfires/

Students Teachers Parents Grades K-5 Grades 6-8 Grades 9-12 Astronomy/Space ... Health History Ancient History U.S. History World History Life Science Animals Ecology Human Body The Microscopic World ... Weather For our newsletter and special teacher promotions. 9-12 > Ecology Grade level: 9-12 Subject: Ecology Duration: Two class periods Objectives Materials Procedures Adaptations ... Credit Find a video description, video clip, and discussion questions. Understanding: Fire Use our free online Teaching Tools to create custom worksheets, puzzles and quizzes on this topic! Students will understand the following: The benefits and problems associated with fire. The role that fire plays in maintaining healthy ecosystems. Resources regarding national parks, fire, and environmental science from your school or local library. Suggested resources include the following: Project Learning Tree, published by the American Forest Foundation Environmental Science: Working with the Earth by G. Tyler Miller www.fs.fed.us/ www.nps.gov/ The index of state fish and wildlife agencies at Fire: The Story behind a Force of Nature by Jack De Golia Introduction to Wildland Fire: Fire Management in the United States by Stephen J. Pyne

22. Centre For Remote Imaging, Sensing And Processing Remote Sensing Centre of NUS with satellite images of South East Asia's forest fires Smoke Haze; engages in the development of an advanced capability in remote sensing. http://www.crisp.nus.edu.sg/

6m X band reception antenna installed in October 2000 13m X band reception antenna installed in August 1995 The Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP) is a research centre of the National University of Singapore established with funding from the of Singapore. CRISP 's mission is to develop an advanced capability in remote sensing to meet the scientific, operational and business requirements of Singapore and the region. CRISP operates a satellite ground station to acquire data from remote sensing satellites, and processes the archived data to standard or value-added products for distribution and research. The list of satellites CRISP receive include: SPOT 1,2,4 (since September 1995) ERS 1,2 (since March 1996) RADARSAT 1 (May 1997 - May 2000) SeaWiFS, NOAA and FengYun 1C (since September 1999) TERRA (MODIS) (since March 2001) IKONOS (since August 2001) EROS-A1 (since October 2001) AQUA (MODIS) (since July 2002) SPOT 5 (since October 2002) CRISP is ready to provide special products custom processed to users' requirements, or training/consultation services in the field of remote sensing.

23. Photography - Nature, Wildlife, Black/White Nature and landscape photography from Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. Includes wildlife, flowers, and forest fires. http://www.taurusphotography.com/

var sAreaName = "Home Page" var sPagecolor = "#669999" var sPagecolorLight = "#99cccc" var sPageName = "" document.write(sHeader) Welcome to TaurusPhotography.com. If you are not familiar with Taurus Photography, this is my personal photography web site, and the THIRD version! Why a third version you ask . . . The third version is bigger and better. I had taken so many pictures that they no longer fit into my five original categories, or the number of images was to overwhelming for one page. So you will notice sub categories with the usual nature, skyscapes, landscapes, wildlife, flowers, etc. Further additions include new categories like my adventures and links. Within those categories you will find not only new photos, but also more personal info like my resume links web rings , and photos from my summer archaeology adventure . You will also notice more personal info about me in general, most people I have talked to complain that they don't even know my name after visiting the site. Well, its Rene, in case you haven't got it yet, and even a picture of me if you are interested! Several pictures in the

24. BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Amazon Forest Fires 'belated Killers' Tuesday, 7 January, 2003, 1110 GMT Amazon forest fires 'belated killers'Years after the fire, the damage becomes clear, By Alex http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2631719.stm

CATEGORIES TV RADIO COMMUNICATE ... INDEX SEARCH You are in: Science/Nature News Front Page World UK ... Programmes SERVICES Daily E-mail News Ticker Mobile/PDAs Text Only ... Help EDITIONS Change to World Tuesday, 7 January, 2003, 11:10 GMT Amazon forest fires 'belated killers' Years after the fire, the damage becomes clear By Alex Kirby BBC News Online environment correspondent Fires in the Amazon forest are killing more trees than anyone had realised, according to UK scientists. They say the fires have a delayed effect, with trees often dying two or three years after they were damaged. This, they say, could double present estimates of the amount of vegetation lost and carbon dioxide released. This could become more important in the future if climatic patterns change significantly. Carbon emissions during severe El Nino events could be equivalent to 10-12.5% of annual global carbon emissions from fossil fuels The UEA scientists The scientists, from the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, UK, report their findings in Ecology Letters. They inspected all standing woody stems of 10 centimetres diameter or more in seven plots measuring 10 by 250 metres spread across 32 square kilometres of forest in the central Brazilian Amazon.

25. BBC NEWS | In Depth | Boston 2002 | Forest Fires Cool Amazonia Sunday, 17 February, 2002, 2044 GMT forest fires cool Amazonia The impact of ozoneneeds further investigation, By BBC News Online's Jonathan Amos in Boston. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2002/boston_2002/1826252.stm

CATEGORIES TV RADIO COMMUNICATE ... INDEX SEARCH You are in: In Depth: Boston 2002 News Front Page World ... Programmes SERVICES Daily E-mail News Ticker Mobile/PDAs Text Only ... Help EDITIONS Change to World Sunday, 17 February, 2002, 20:44 GMT Forest fires cool Amazonia The impact of ozone needs further investigation By BBC News Online's Jonathan Amos in Boston Scientists have shown for the first time how fires in the Amazon are making temperatures fall across vast areas of the forest. The fires put masses of tiny particles into the atmosphere which reflect incoming sunlight back out into space. The loss of heating at ground level is leading to an average three Celsius drop in temperatures during the burning season that runs from August to October. But this is only part of the story; the particles are also "drying out" the clouds, reducing precipitation in some regions by as much as 30%. Sun shield Fires in the Amazon are confined to a relatively small area - about 15% has been burnt or cleared for pasture - but the effects of fire pollution can be felt over a much wider area. "The untouched, prime forest covers about 5.5 million square kilometres," Professor Paulo Artaxo, from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, told the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. "We think perhaps as much as a half of that could be being affected by secondary pollution."

26. Urunga Rural Fire Brigade Details of a bush fire brigade, specialising in MVA, village and forest fires. http://urungarfs.8m.com/

27. Welcome To Ely, Minnesota, Gateway To The Boundary Waters Ely shopping, Our services, Ely Webcams, Ely Business directory, Worldwideweather forecasts, Virtual Ely, Outdoor reports, forest fires status, http://www.elyminnesota.com/fire_status/

Daily Wildfire Update Minnesota Situation Report MNICS Situation Report National Situation Report Wildfire Location Maps includes detailed reporting on individual fires Fire Danger Index Maps Jack Pine Model Grass Model BWCAW blowdown area Boundary Waters blowdown information Articles Blowdown Burn Plan Behind Schedule - by Marshall Helmberger, The Ely Timberjay Ecological perspectives on the BWCAW ‘superblowdown’ of July 4th, 1999 - Lee E. Frelich / Peter B. Reich PRELIMINARY ECOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE JULY 4th BLOWDOWN in the BWCAW - Lee E. Frelich NATURAL DISTURBANCE AND VARIABILITY OF FORESTED ECOSYSTEMS IN NORTHERN MINNESOTA - Lee E. Frelich Fire Danger Rating Burning Restrictions Make Ely my home page AREA NEWS Local News ADVERTISE VISITOR COMMENTS PRODUCTS ... Privacy guidelines

28. Forest Fire Research At The Pacific Forestry Centre Definition of forest fires and links to forest fire studies and research projectsat the Pacific Forestry Centre, British Columbia, Canada. forest fires. http://www.pfc.forestry.ca/fires/index_e.html

Contact Us Help Search Canada Site ... Programs PFC Home Our Role Our People Science Programs Policy Publications Centres Partners PFC Home Our Role Our People Science ... Research Forest Fires Research in this area focuses on studying the fire environment, fire behavior, fire ecology, and fire as a natural disturbance; developing information and decision-support systems for monitoring and predicting wildland fire activity and for enhancing fire management efficiency and effectiveness; and investigating the relationship between projected climate change and wildland fire in the boreal forest. Studies and Research Projects Fire Research Network National Forest Fire Situation report National Research Portal : Forest Fires Last Updated: Important Notices

29. The Environmental Literacy Council - Forest Fires forest fires. forest fires can endanger homes and wildlife and takean immense human and financial toll to control. Yet, forest fires http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/46.html

Home About ELC Site Map Contact Us ... Food Forest Fires Forest fires can endanger homes and wildlife and take an immense human and financial toll to control. Yet, forest fires are natural and serve an important function in ecosystems. Most tree species evolved to take advantage of fire, and periodic fires contribute to forest health. In the absence of human settlement, fires often move through the forest burning lower branches and clearing dead wood from forest floor. Clearing the clutter from a forest floor, as one site puts it, "kick-starts regeneration by providing ideal growing conditions." It also improves the forest floor as habitat for many species that prefer relatively open spaces to a dense thicket of brush and dead branches. Further, forests in which fires are suppressed often burn much hotter and more dangerously when a serious fire finally breaks out. But it is understandable for people who live near forests and who own forest land to want their property, and their lives, protected from the ravages of fire so these are particularly difficult tradeoffs to make. How Forest Fires Work At howstuffworks.com

30. NAEP | All About > Projects > Forest Fires forest fires. Types of Engineering involved Forestry, In fact, only 200300 fireseach year will consume more than 200 hectares of forest and wildland. http://www.nativeaccess.com/allabout/projects_fires.html

I want to view ... Ancestral Curriculum Education Modules Pro-Dev. Role Models Eng. Types Home All About Engineering Projects Forest Fires Types of Engineering involved: Forestry In Canada, every summer, approximately 9000 fires flare up. They consume about 3 million hectares of trees and vegetation. Because many First Nations communities are in or near forested areas, fires and their control directly impact many Aboriginal people each year. Wildfires are a part of the Earth's natural process of renewal. They help to recycle dead plant material into the soil; certain plants, especially fir trees, have seeds which are only easily released by the heat of fire. Natural wildfires are usually caused by lightning. In areas where there is large build up of dead vegetation, small contained fires are sometimes deliberately set to prevent larger more destructive fires. Unfortunately, many fires are also caused by human carelessness: campfires left unattended or cigarette butts flicked into the bush can easily and quickly ignite dried vegetation and even tree roots. It is these accidental fires which often cause the most damage. By themselves wildfires do little damage and burn out quickly. In fact, only 200-300 fires each year will consume more than 200 hectares of forest and wildland. Unfortunately, this 2-3% of fires account for almost 97% of the annual area burned. These fires generally occur in places where a huge amount of dead plant material has built up over a long period of time and provides fuel for an out-of-control inferno.

31. Forest Fires Remote Sensing of Land/forest fires. Firesrelated Research at CRISP. CRISP's publicationsrelated to forest fires. Forest-Fires and Haze Related Websites. http://www.crisp.nus.edu.sg/forest_fire/fire.html

Remote Sensing of Land/Forest Fires Fire is traditionally used by the shifting cultivators and small-scale farmers as a tool for clearing land in the Southeast asian region. In recent years, fire has increasingly been used by large plantations to clear land and for conversion of forest into plantations and agricultural land. In time of drought, the fires may go out of control, resulting in severe damage to the forest and the surrounding region. The 1997/98 forest fire episode in Southeast Asia has attracted international attention. The fires which occurred primarily in the Sumatra and Borneo islands and aggravated by the drought due to the El Nino Southern Oscillation phenomenon, resulted in increased aerosol loading (smoke-haze) over the region. The economic damage resulting from the haze has been reported to be in the range of billions of dollars. Millions of hectares of land/forest have been burnt. The environmental impacts of the fires include the loss of biodiversity, loss of forests as carbon sinks and emission of greenhouse gases which may influence the global climatic systems. In response to this situation, daily fire monitoring operation of the region using full-resolution SPOT images has been carried out at CRISP, in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, Singapore. CRISP has also acquired many SPOT, ERS and RADARSAT images of the areas affected by fires.

32. Study Links Logging With Severity Of Forest Fires Study Links Logging With Severity of forest fires . Researchers have StudyLinks Logging With Severity of forest fires Hillary Mayell http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/12/1203_loggingfires.html

Sign up for our free e-mail newsletter Also see: Today's Top Stories This Story EarthPulse E-mail this story In Association With Study Links Logging With Severity of Forest Fires Hillary Mayell for National Geographic News December 3, 2001 Researchers have confirmed a long-suspected link between logging and the devastation of forest fires in tropical rain forests. Forest fires that ripped through East Kalimantan, Indonesia, in 1998 burned more than 12 million acres (5 million hectares). Burning Issue Fires that ripped through East Kalimantan, Indonesia, in 1998 burned more than 12 million acres (5 million hectares) of land and forest. Photograph by Florian Siegert More News Diary of the Planet The Environment Travel National Geographic Today Special Series Digital Lifestyles: feature by Sony EarthPulse National Geographic Out There ... Mount Everest Expedition The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), based in Bogor, Indonesia, estimated that the economic loss to Indonesia exceeded U.S. $9 billion and that carbon emissions were high enough to make the country one of the largest polluters in the world. Using remote sensing, satellite imagery, and ground and aerial surveys, a team of German and Indonesian researchers found that the bulk of the roughly 12 million acres (5 million hectares) consumed by fire occurred in timber concessions, plantations, and on land converted to agricultural use and then left fallow.

33. Query Results Display Retrieved 195 Search Results forest fires. NEXT 10 RECORDS. Click on photo or title to view the image description 1 http://www3.nau.edu/cline/subjectreferal.cfm?subject_note=Forest fires

34. What Is Europe Doing? Forest Fires The facts. Every year, some 45,000 forest fires break out in Europe.Between 1989 and 1993, 2.6 million hectares of woodland were http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/leaflets/disasters/en/forest.html

IMPORTANT LEGAL NOTICE The information on this site is subject to a and a Forest fires Previous Contents Next The facts Every year, some 45,000 forest fires break out in Europe. Between 1989 and 1993, 2.6 million hectares of woodland were destroyed by fire in the Mediterranean alone. That amounts to an area equal to that of Belgium being struck off the map every five years. Fires cause considerable damage in terms of loss of life and in environmental terms through the destruction of fauna and flora. They also have serious economic implications: destruction of habitats, forest damage, costs of fire-fighting, and so on. Most of these fires are caused by man. However, there are many natural factors such as drought, wind speed and topography, which influence the spread of fires and govern their devastating effects. Action Fire-fighting is a complicated business. The aim of research is to understand the behaviour of fire and to give decision-makers, technicians, and firemen the tools to enable them to act with the necessary effectiveness and speed. The European Commission is funding several pilot projects. They are designed to:

35. EUROPA - Environment - Forest Fires : Completed And On-going Activities - Civil forest fires Completed and ongoing activities. First Report on forest fires in SouthernEurope - July 2001. Self-tuition Workshop, Fighting of large forest fires, http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/civil/prote/cpactiv/cpact06.htm

en EUROPA European Commission Environment Policies ... Developments Forest fires Completed and on-going activities First Report on Forest Fires in Southern Europe - July 2001 New Website of the Commission on Forest Fires - in EN, FR, DE: http://europa.eu.int/comm/agriculture/fore/fires/index_en.htm Self-tuition Workshop Use of Chemicals, Retardants and Foams in Aerial and Ground Forest Fire fighting Greece, 1995 Self-tuition Workshop Use of aerial means in forest fires France, 1994 Pilot project Cross-border co-operation on forest fire-fighting France +Italy, 1993 Self-tuition Workshop Risk analysis of forest fires and initial attack Greece, 1993 Support action Interministerial seminar on forest fires Portugal, 1992 Self-tuition Workshop Fighting of large forest fires France, 1992 Self-tuition Workshop Scientific research and forest fires Portugal, 1992 Self-tuition Workshop Combating forest fires: identification of major common problems Belgium, 1991

36. Forest Fires forest fires up. It looks in depth at this problem in several developing countries,and discusses the contribution of forest fires to air pollution. http://agrifor.ac.uk/browse/cabi/detail/132729427c3ddaaca6e04efb7d580bb1.html

forest fires [up] Related topics: broader fires other fire control forests Air pollution and the forests of developing and rapidly industrialising countries : IUFRO series no. 4 Published in August 2000, this is the full-text of the fourth in a series of IUFRO books "Air pollution and the forests of developing and rapidly industrialising countries", edited by JL Innes of the University of British Columbia and Haron Abu Hassan of the Institute of Foresters. The book contains 13 chapters, covering "the importance of air pollution for the forests of rapidly industrialising countries and regions". It looks in depth at this problem in several developing countries, and discusses the contribution of forest fires to air pollution. Chapters are available in PDF, requiring Adobe Acrobat Reader. This book is published and made freely available on the Web by CAB International, an international not-for-profit publisher in applied life sciences. Developing Countries air pollution forest fires forests ... CCRS products and research on disaster monitoring The Canadian Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS) carries out research, provides information and promotes the use of remote sensing in disaster monitoring applications. This site provides details of programmes and reports on flooding, forest fires, oil spills, and atmospheric events. Previous and on-going research reports are available, as well as a tutorial on remote sensing. Canada disasters forest fires remote sensing ... DELFI DELFI is a project coordinated by CINAR SA of Greece which aims to organise and disseminate existing knowledge on forest fires within the European Union. News of projects throughout Europe and reports of symposia are presented. A forest fire glossary is searchable by initial letter, in English, French, Greek, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish. A database of European research and resources, the DELFI Knowledge Base, is also searchable. The DELFI Thematic Network is provided for subscribers to exchange views and information. Hosted by CINAR.

37. Fighting Forest Fires Fighting forest fires A Guide to Seasonal Employment http://w3.gorge.net/macht/fire/

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38. Pilot Projects On Forest Fires Pilot Projects on forest fires. forest fires constitute a recurrentphenomenon in the Mediterranean region. In the past fires may http://natural-hazards.jrc.it/fires/

Location IES LMU Natural Hazards Activities ... European Forest Fires Information System (EFFIS) Test Pilot Projects on Forest Fires Forest fires constitute a recurrent phenomenon in the Mediterranean region. In the past fires may have been a natural phenomenon. This is not the case nowadays. Most fires in the Mediterranean region are caused by human activities. Increasing population growth and population density has posed a heavy pressure on wildland. Other factors such as migration of population from the country to the cities and abandonment of lands have also helped to a more continuos fuel layer that facilitates fire spread. Despite the devastating effects of forest fires on the fragile Mediterranean landscapes, there is a lack of harmonized information on fire occurrence and fire damage at the European scale. This is due to many factors, among them the different definition of forests in Mediterranean countries, and the different methods used to collect information on fire events. SAI activities on forest fires are aimed at obtaining harmonized products for all the European countries. However, the initial focus of the activities is southern Europe, since this is the area most affected by fires in the European Union. Panoramic view of forest fires in Greece in the summer of 1998 Forest fire activities cover the entire fire cycle, examining the variables that may influence fire occurrence and/or spread before the fire, going through fire detection once the fire has started, and mapping the burnt areas and evaluating damages after the fires. Hence, the forest fire activities of the Natural Hazards project comprise three topics:

39. REMOTE SENSING OF FOREST FIRES REMOTE SENSING OF forest fires. A semiautomatic method to map forest fires duringlarge periods by means of remote sensing imagery has been developed. http://www.creaf.uab.es/miramon/publicat/papers/lisboa98/for_fire.htm

REMOTE SENSING OF FOREST FIRES Remote sensing as a tool to map forest fires, to study the fire regime and their effects on plant communities and the integration into a GIS Raimon SALVADOR, Ricardo DÍAZ- DELGADO, Jordi VALERIANO and Xavier PONS A semiautomatic method to map forest fires during large periods by means of remote sensing imagery has been developed. This methodology has been applied to the period 1975-1993 and results have been given as a forest fire map series and a fire history map of Catalonia (Northeast of Spain). These maps have been lately converted to vector layers and all results have been integrated into a GIS. The results have been contrasted to independent administration data and commission and omission errors have been evaluated. Fire frequencies and NDVI post-fire values have been used to retrieve valuable information on the fire regime and to evaluate plant regeneration rates in Mediterranean plant communities. GIS tools are being used for further landscape analysis. KEYWORDS: Remote Sensing, MSS, NDVI, fire scars mapping, plant regeneration, fire regimes.

40. Planet Ark Environmental News Pictures: Forest Fires, Floods And Drought Will Li forest fires, Floods and Drought Will Likely Hit Portugal on the Next100 Years. Mail this picture to a friend. PORTUGAL July 11, 2002. http://www.planetark.org/envpicstory.cfm/newsid/16808

Subscribe to daily environment news Recycling Near You A Current Affair -"Gunns" story Select a topic from this pull-down menu Read the latest Reuters World Environment News Look at the latest Reuters Environment News Pictures Receive free daily news headlines via email Search the Planet Ark News Archive Find out about National Tree Day Visit the Planet Ark Media Centre Download our free environmental software Who are Planet Ark? Find out how YOU can help the planet Find out about the local recycling services available in your area Forest Fires, Floods and Drought Will Likely Hit Portugal on the Next 100 Years Mail this picture to a friend PORTUGAL: July 11, 2002 File photo from August 1998 of people looking at a forest fire in Vila de Rei in the centre of Portugal. Forest fires, floods and drought will likely hit Portugal in the next 100 years as it scorches under global warming, the head of a landmark environment study said on. Story by JR Photo by JOSE MANUEL RIBEIRO REUTERS NEWS PICTURE SERVICE ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS SEARCH Enter your keywords to search our news archive by subject.

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