News tagged with wildlands
Reducing carbon footprints with carbon storage
Control of carbon emissions is an important component in the bid to address global climate change. However destruction of wildland habitats to make way for agriculture continues to erode the amount of carbon stored in the ...
Nov 09, 2011 |
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Spreading like wildfire? Maybe not always
One of America's most costly natural disasters are wildland fires, and wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires rank among the worst of these. WUI is the threshold where wildfires consume not only the landscape, ...
Oct 12, 2011 |
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Fire brings communities together -- 'You're from the government, we trust you'
As homes and cities expand closer to forests and wildlands across the American West, increasing wildfire threats have created an unlikely new phenomena – confidence in government.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 30, 2011 |
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Houndstongue is a controllable problem on range and wild lands
(PhysOrg.com) -- Houndstongue--also known as beggar's lice, dog's tongue, sheep bur and woolmat--is not only a general nuisance to those of you who find its sticky seeds stuck in your shoelaces or the hair of your dogs and ...
May 28, 2009 |
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Feinstein seeks block solar power from desert land
(AP) -- California's Mojave Desert may seem ideally suited for solar energy production, but concern over what several proposed projects might do to the aesthetics of the region and its tortoise population ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 21, 2009 |
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