Gary Ferguson
Autor von Wo der Adler wohnt: Mein Leben in der Wildnis des Yellowstone Parks
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Gary Ferguson's nature articles have appeared in dozens of national magazines, and he lectures regularly on wilderness and conservation issues. A longtime Rocky Mountain resident naturalist, he lives in Montana
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Land on Fire: The New Reality of Wildfire in the West von Gary Ferguson
Lots of information on a topic we don't typically think much about (especially here in the Eastern US): wildfires and wildfire-fighting. If you have a friend who is a climate change skeptic, give them this book. It puts the climate changes we face into clear perspective via the undeniable fact of increasing wildfire frequency and intensity.
Very powerful! Gave a lot of detail on the nature of fire and the problems of fighting today's mega forest fires. I'm glad I read it; I now have a list of discussion questions to ask whenever we travel to areas that have experienced devastating fires.
“There is much at stake with this loss of land management and science capacity, “ says Topik (Christopher Topik of the Nature Conservancy). “Forestlands provide half of our nation’s water and sequester about 13 percent of total US fossil fuel carbon emissions, but projections suggest that forest will become net carbon emitters later this century if steps are not take to make them more resilient..' "
I read this as part of the Glacier Conservancy Book Club.
A summary of wildfire, how it is fought, current thoughts on how fire is important to ecosystems and what global warming will mean to wildland fires.
Pretty straight forward. Since I live in an area impacted by wildfires, there wasn’t much information new to me, but it’s nice to see it together in one place.… (mehr)
I read this as part of the Glacier Conservancy Book Club.
A summary of wildfire, how it is fought, current thoughts on how fire is important to ecosystems and what global warming will mean to wildland fires.
Pretty straight forward. Since I live in an area impacted by wildfires, there wasn’t much information new to me, but it’s nice to see it together in one place.… (mehr)
Ferguson discusses in a very personal way how the latest research shows that exposure to nature is necessary for our physical and mental health.
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