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2009.
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There is an overarching concern about the long term trade offs between air quality protection and efforts to mitigate unwanted wildfire. The emissions from wildfire may exceed air quality standards to such a degree that it may be prudent to allow greater levels of burning now to prevent unmitigated wildfires in the future. Prescribed fire implementation needs to regard to issues, such as health risk, public safety, and ecosystem damage if prescribed...
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2020.
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Wildfires in Colorado have been increasing in frequency and severity, often leading to longer watershed recovery periods and necessitating an "all hands on deck" approach to post-fire rehabilitation. Counties, tribes, municipalities, and water providers are typically the entities most directly and immediately impacted by wildfire and post-fire erosion and flooding, yet there is a gap in guidance in terms of navigating the complexities surrounding...
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2019.
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There are approximately 1,736 known abandoned coal mines in the State of Colorado. In 2017 and 2018, on behalf of the State of Colorado Department of Natural Resources Division of Mining Reclamation Safety (DRMS), Tetra Tech, Inc. inspected 38 coal mine fire sites across Colorado. Site conditions included highly active fires, low activity and dormant fires and sites that were previously reclaimed and confirmed as dormant/extinguished. Several coal...
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2013.
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There are over 30 known underground coal fires in Colorado. Extinguishing or containing these fires has been challenging, primarily because delineating the subsurface extents of these fires is difficult. In this study, general characteristics of underground coal fires in Colorado are described. While the locations and the coal seams that are on fire differ, many common features are shared by the 30 plus known fires that are burning in the Colorado....
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Kate Burkholder thrillers volume 10
Pub. Date
2018.
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When a historic barn burns to the ground in the middle of the night, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called in to investigate. At first, it looks like an accident, but when the body of eighteen-year-old Daniel Gingerich is found inside - burned alive - Kate suspects murder. Who would want a well-liked, hardworking young Amish man dead? Kate delves into the investigation only to find herself stonewalled by the community to which she once belonged....
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2023
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"In May 2016, the city of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, burned to the ground, forcing 88,000 people to flee their homes. It was the largest evacuation ever of a city in the face of a forest fire, raising the curtain on a new age of increasingly destructive wildfires. This book is a suspenseful account of one of North America's most devastating forest fires-and a stark exploration of our dawning era of climate catastrophes"--
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2021.
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Growing up, David Almerin Ames and his brothers, Link and Simon, believed the wild patch of Maine where they lived along the Penobscot River belonged to them. Running down the state like a spine, the river shared its name with the people of the Penobscot Nation, whose ancestral territory included the entire Penobscot watershed—the land upon which the Ames family eventually made their home.
The brothers’ affinity for the natural world derives...
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Excerpt: "[Lumbermen] are in such a hurry to get rich that they'll leave their grandchildren a desert. They cut and slash in every direction, and then fires come and the country is ruined. Our rivers depend upon the forests for water. The trees draw the rain; the leaves break it up and let it fall in mists and drippings; it seeps into the ground, and is held by roots. If the trees are destroyed the rain rushes off on the surface and floods the rivers....
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