Project Scheduling and Management for Construction or Flames in Our Forest

Project Scheduling and Management for Construction

Author: David Pierc

A comprehensive, yet easy-to-follow guide to construction project planning and control... from vital project management principles through the latest scheduling, tracking, and controlling techniques. The author explains how to think through and prepare a schedule, and then use it effectively to manage your projects. The book helps you to quickly understand and master this complex topic.

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Flames in Our Forest: Disaster or Renewal?

Author: Stephen F Arno

<p>Shaped by fire for thousands of years, the forests of the western United States are as adapted to periodic fires as they are to the region's soils and climate. Our widespread practice of ignoring the vital role of fire is costly in both ecological and economic terms, with consequences including the decline of important fire-dependent tree and undergrowth species, increasing density and stagnation of forests, epidemics of insects and diseases, and the high potential for severe wildfires.<p>Flames in Our Forest explains those problems and presents viable solutions to them. It explores the underlying historical and ecological reasons for the problems associated with our attempts to exclude fire and examines how some of the benefits of natural fire can be restored Chapters consider: <ul><li>the history of American perceptions and uses of fire in the forest <li>how forest fires burn <li>effects of fire on the soil, water, and air <li>methods for uncovering the history and effects of past fires <li>prescribed fire and fuel treatments for different zones in the landscape</ul><p>Flames in Our Forest presents a new picture of the role of fire in maintaining forests, describes the options available for restoring the historical effects of fires, and considers the implications of not doing so. It will help readers appreciate the importance of fire in forests and gives a nontechnical overview of the scientific knowledge and tools available for sustaining western forests by mimicking and restoring the effects of natural fire regimes.

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Arno and Allison-Bunnell provide a nontechnical account of the story of fire in the western forests of the U.S., based on current scientific knowledge and experience. They explore the importance of fire to forests, and ways in which some of the benefits of natural fire can be restored, including the creative use and suppression of fires that occur, prescribed burning, management of forest fuels, the art and science of forest management, and ways to make forest homes and their surroundings more resistant to fire. Arno was a research forester with the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station in Missoula; Allison-Bunnell is a science writer and educational multimedia producer based in Missoula. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	Introduction: Why Learn about Fire?	1
Ch. 2	Mixed Signals: A Brief History of American Perceptions of Fire	11
Ch. 3	Fire on the Landscape: Past, Present, and Future	27
Ch. 4	Fire Behavior: Why and How Fire Burns	37
Ch. 5	Nature's Creative Force: How Fire Shapes the Forest	51
Ch. 6	Different Forests, Different Fires	65
Ch. 7	Environmental Impacts: Fire's Influence on Soils, Water, and Air	89
Ch. 8	Fire History: Discovering Effects of Past Fires in a Forest	103
Ch. 9	Fire-Prone Forests: Can We Adapt to Them?	119
Ch. 10	Restoring Nature's Creative Force	137
Ch. 11	Managing Wildland Fuels around Homes	157
Ch. 12	Lessons from Nature: Will We Learn?	169
App	Getting Help: Information and Educational Resources for Forest Landowners	183
	References	189
	About the Authors	213
	Index	215