Smokescreen : debunking wildfire myths to save our forests and our climate /

Smokescreen : debunking wildfire myths to save our forests and our climate / Chad T. Hanson.

"Smokescreen cuts through years of misunderstanding and misdirection to make an impassioned, evidence-based argument for a new era of forest management for the sake of the planet and the human race. Natural fires are as essential as sun and rain in fire-adapted forests, but as humans encroach o...

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Main Author: Hanson, Chad T. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2021]
Subjects:
Forest fires > Environmental aspects.
Forest management.
Climatic changes > Prevention.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Detours
  • The fiery myths that undermine climate solutions
  • The snag forest
  • You can't fight the wind with a chain saw
  • The "megafire" narrative
  • What's the real "carbon bomb"?
  • The economics of deceit
  • What you aren't being told about "thinning"
  • An inconvenient woodpecker
  • Climate change enablers
  • The logging collaboratives
  • Fire in the east
  • Fire-safe communities
  • Keep It in the forest, keep It in the ground
  • A new wildfire vocabulary
  • Moving beyond the politics of fear.

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