Tag Archives: fire

Fire and the Anishinaabe

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Garry Peterson

Andrew Miller and Iain Davidson-Hunt from the University of Manitoba, write about Fire, Agency and Scale in the Creation of Aboriginal Cultural Landscapes in Human Ecology (doi: 10.1007/s10745-010-9325-3). The authors worked with the Pikangikum First Nation to understand and analyze … Continue reading →

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Fire, climate change, and the reorganization of Arctic ecosystems

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Garry Peterson

Alaskan nature writer Bill Sherwonit reports on Yale Environment 360 about the complex response of Arctic ecosystems to climate change in how Arctic Tundra is Being Lost As Far North Quickly Warms: Researchers have known for years that the Arctic … Continue reading →

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Stephen Pyne on California Wildfires

Posted on August 31, 2009 by Garry Peterson

ASU fire historian Stephen Pyne on current California wildfires on Island Press’s weblog.  In Two fires he writes: Then: Southern California burns, 2008 Even for the literal-minded, it was hard not to lump the conflagrations on Wall Street with those … Continue reading →

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Slow variables that shape bushfire resilience

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Garry Peterson

Creating the perfect firestorm on the BBC writes about two of the slow variables that produce a fire situation: climate and fuel accumulation: Current climate projections point to an increase in fire-weather risk from warmer and drier conditions. Two simulations … Continue reading →

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Stephen Pyne on the Australian fires

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Garry Peterson

American fire historian Stephen Pyne comments in The Australian on the current Australian fires in Bushfire leader becomes laggard: Australia knows better. It developed many key concepts of fire ecology and models of bushfire behaviour. It pioneered landscape-scale prescribed burning … Continue reading →

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Mapping global fires

Posted on December 31, 2008 by Garry Peterson

Global Fires : Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory: Like plants, fire activity grows and wanes in seasonal patterns. Globally, fires peak in July, August, and September, when summer’s drying heat makes vegetation flammable and lightning ignites the … Continue reading →

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Stephen Pyne compares California Fires and the Financial Crisis

Posted on November 30, 2008 by Garry Peterson

Fire historian Stephen Pyne writes in the Tyee A Wildfire Expert Views the Money Meltdown: There are no absolute assurances that wildfire will not from time to time spill over into settlements, any more than markets won’t fizz and bubble; … Continue reading →

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Mike Davis on California Wildfires

Posted on November 10, 2007 by Garry Peterson

Political ecologist Mike Davis writing on the 2007 California Wildfires in the LRB Every year, sometimes in September, but usually in October just before Halloween, when California’s wild vegetation is driest and most combustible, high pressure over the Great Basin … Continue reading →

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How slow change increased California’s fire risk

Posted on October 24, 2007 by Garry Peterson

The Christian Science Monitor article California’s age of megafires describes how California’s fire risk has been increased by slow changes in fire suppression (but probably not in California), climate change, longer fire season, and house construction in the wildland-urban interface: … Continue reading →

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