The dynamic path of recreational values following a forest fire: a comparative analysis of states in the Intermountain West

2001 ◽  
Vol 31 (10) ◽  
pp. 1837-1844 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Englin ◽  
John Loomis ◽  
Armando González-Cabán
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Forest Fire ◽  
Travel Cost ◽  
Demand Analysis ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Public Land ◽  
Intermountain West ◽  
Highly Nonlinear ◽  
Dynamic Path

This analysis examines the dynamic path of recreational values following a forest fire in three different states in the intermountain western United States. The travel cost demand analysis found that annual recreation values after a fire follow a highly nonlinear intertemporal path. The path is S-shaped, providing a range of benefits and losses in the years following a fire. While the results discourage the use of a single value throughout the Intermountain West, they do provide a range of likely values that public land managers can apply to fire-affected areas in their jurisdictions.

scholarly journals Evacuation Behavior during Wildfires: Results of Three Case Studies

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia J. Cohn ◽  
Matthew S. Carroll ◽  
Yoshitaka Kumagai
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Public Land ◽  
Structured Interviews

Abstract Evacuation of rural communities threatened by wildfires is occurring more often, particularly in the western United States. Residents, public safety officials, community leaders, and public land managers are facing the issues and problems of this new experience. We used semi-structured interviews to elicit the evacuation experience from the viewpoint of evacuees and public safety officials in three case studies of wildfire evacuations in the western United States during 2000 and 2002. (Our interviews were conducted only with Teller County residents and officials.) We identify and describe the stages of the evacuation process as experienced by evacuees, and the dynamics and dilemmas associated with each stage. We analyze these perceptions and dynamics using the sociological lenses of social construction of meaning and structuration. The results indicate that evacuees and public safety officials have different perceptions and concerns about the evacuation process. We derive lessons learned from these three cases for use in planning future wildfire evacuations.

COMMENTS ON MARTEN'S SPECIES OF TABANIDAE (HORSEFLIES) FROM WESTERN UNITED STATES

1935 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 92-95
Author(s):  
Cornelius B. Philip
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Western United States

In the Canadian Entomologist (1882 and 1883) Marten describes 7 species of Tabanus from the western United States of which the location of the types is unfortunately unknown. Certain characters now considered essential for comparative analysis were not adequately treated by him and as the descriptions were apparently based on damaged specimens in 2 instances, and on very restricted numbers in others, some confusion has arisen as to the identity of certain of these species.

scholarly journals Effects of Climate Change on Natural-Caused Fire Activity in Western U.S. National Forests

Atmosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 981
Author(s):  
Hadi Heidari ◽  
Mazdak Arabi ◽  
Travis Warziniack
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Forest Fire ◽  
Forest Fires ◽  
Western United States ◽  
National Forests ◽  
Climate Change Scenarios ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Fire Activity ◽  
The Future

Climate change, with warming temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns, may increase natural-caused forest fire activity. Increasing natural-caused fires throughout western United States national forests could place people, property, and infrastructure at risk in the future. We used the fine K nearest neighbor (KNN) method coupled with the downscaled Multivariate Adaptive Constructed Analogs (MACA) climate dataset to estimate changes in the rate of natural-caused fires in western United States national forests. We projected changes in the rate of minor and major forest fires from historical (1986–2015) to future (2070–2099) conditions to characterize fire-prone national forests under a range of climate change scenarios. The results indicate that climate change can add to the occurrence of forest fires in western United States national forests, particularly in Rocky Mountain, Pacific Southwest, and Southwestern United States Forest Service regions. Although summer months are projected to have the highest rate of natural-caused forest fire activity in the future, the rate of natural-caused forest fires is likely to increase from August to December in the future compared to the historical conditions. Improved understanding of altered forest fire regimes can help forest managers to better understand the potential effects of climate change on future fire activity and implement actions to attenuate possible negative consequences.

Climatic stress increases forest fire severity across the western United States

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. 1151-1156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip J. van Mantgem ◽  
Jonathan C. B. Nesmith ◽  
MaryBeth Keifer ◽  
Eric E. Knapp ◽  
Alan Flint ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Forest Fire ◽  
Fire Severity ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Climatic Stress

Writing Time in Metaphors

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Entire System ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Space Race ◽  
Do So

Coherence of place often exists alongside irregularities in time in cycles, and chapter three turns to cycles linked by temporal markers. Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles (1950) follows a linear chronology and describes the exploration, conquest, and repopulation of Mars by humans. Conversely, Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine (1984) jumps back and forth across time to narrate the lives of interconnected families in the western United States. Bradbury’s cycle invokes a confluence of historical forces—time as value-laden, work as a calling, and travel as necessitating standardized time—and contextualizes them in relation to anxieties about the space race. Erdrich’s cycle invokes broader, oppositional conceptions of time—as recursive and arbitrary and as causal and meaningful—to depict time as implicated in an entire system of measurement that made possible the destruction and exploitation of the Chippewa people. Both volumes understand the United States to be preoccupied with imperialist impulses. Even as they critique such projects, they also point to the tenacity with which individuals encounter these systems, and they do so by creating “interstitial temporalities,” which allow them to navigate time at the crossroads of language and culture.

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