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Project Reflection: by doing this project doing this project i learned that mega fires are a bigger problem then people realize most of the time. There is an average of 35,000 wild fires a year.
mega fires
I chose this project because, I did not know how much about it and i didn't know how big of about a problem mega fires are. just in Colorado area were having a average of 3000 to 5000 wildfires a year. So many people are starting to live in high elevated forest because of this natural wildfires are being suppress to the point putting them out are getting harder because of all the unstable trees causing bigger.
Cole
Hawkins
Fires in the Rockies
Mega fires are not only big and intense they effect every body that are in their path. their are more intense and big then a wildfire. Mega fires impact the wildlife population in that their numbers will decrease.
Details
If the Durango ares with citizens living in higher denser forests the high risk of wildfires. a.Controlled burns would lessen uncontrolled fires. Firefighters would burn the forest in a safe distance from residences citizens living in the area. NDOW, or, National Division Of Wildlife. -Fire fighters and USFS, or, United Stats Forest Service, would kindly use their resources to start controlled fires and burns over the entire area in the red zone and burn the forest at a controllable rate. - If the USFS burns the forests that are in red zones, after the fire the soil will become more fertile around the Durango area with healthier trees. -Funding will come from local private organizations and government.
-If the most important ares are burned more people can live in the high elevated parts of Durango.
b. Benefits - Controlled burns would cost less money and be quicker and more efficient. Cons- Fires mite get out of control burn and destroy homes.
Details
2. a.Outbreaks of native mountain pine beetle populations have affected over 1.6 million of predominantly lodgepole pine forests in Colorado and southern Wyoming since 1996.
-Policy makers, forest managers, and the public are concerned that resulting tree mortality will increase.
-lesson fires threatening communities with the by eradicating the beetle population.
- funding would on from the Colorado state.
- In the Colorado state in the high Rocky Mountains town and populations red zones are growing.
-Colorado is having its worst wildfire season in a decade, with more than a half dozen forest fires burning across the state's parched terrain.
b.Benefits
-Less trees that have been infected with MPB and heather trees.
Cons
- Fires effecting citizens around the Durango ares.
Details
3.With Colorado experiencing the worst weather conditions for wildfire since the burn, foresters and firefighters fear could bring more catastrophic blazes to the red zone population.
- The area that’s most affected is the higher elevation timber country, which has the potential for large mega fires.
- By lessoning the trees in the forest with the NWCG, National Wildfire Coordinating Group help there will be lesser wildfires.
-Firefighters primarily use hand tools to build a fire line that separates burning fuel from unburned fuel.
Benefits
- Less risk of wildfires in populated ares.
Cons
-Disrupting the habitats of animals in the clearing ares.
Living with wildfires by Janet c. Arrowood
Schoennagel T. "Effects of Mountain Pine Beetle on Fuels and Expected Fire Behavior in Lodgepole Pine Forests, Colorado, USA." PLOS ONE:. N.p., 21 Sept. 2012.
Web. 22 Oct. 2012. <http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0030002>.
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Fires in the Rockies
Mega fires are not only big and intense they effect every body that are in their path. their are more intense and big then a wildfire. Mega fires impact the wildlife population in that their numbers will decrease.
Details
If the Durango ares with citizens living in higher denser forests the high risk of wildfires. a.Controlled burns would lessen uncontrolled fires. Firefighters would burn the forest in a safe distance from residences citizens living in the area. NDOW, or, National Division Of Wildlife. -Fire fighters and USFS, or, United Stats Forest Service, would kindly use their resources to start controlled fires and burns over the entire area in the red zone and burn the forest at a controllable rate. - If the USFS burns the forests that are in red zones, after the fire the soil will become more fertile around the Durango area with healthier trees. -Funding will come from local private organizations and government.
-If the most important ares are burned more people can live in the high elevated parts of Durango.
b. Benefits - Controlled burns would cost less money and be quicker and more efficient. Cons- Fires mite get out of control burn and destroy homes.
Details
2. a.Outbreaks of native mountain pine beetle populations have affected over 1.6 million of predominantly lodgepole pine forests in Colorado and southern Wyoming since 1996.
-Policy makers, forest managers, and the public are concerned that resulting tree mortality will increase.
-lesson fires threatening communities with the by eradicating the beetle population.
- funding would on from the Colorado state.
- In the Colorado state in the high Rocky Mountains town and populations red zones are growing.
-Colorado is having its worst wildfire season in a decade, with more than a half dozen forest fires burning across the state's parched terrain.
b.Benefits
-Less trees that have been infected with MPB and heather trees.
Cons
- Fires effecting citizens around the Durango ares.
Details
3.With Colorado experiencing the worst weather conditions for wildfire since the burn, foresters and firefighters fear could bring more catastrophic blazes to the red zone population.
- The area that’s most affected is the higher elevation timber country, which has the potential for large mega fires.
- By lessoning the trees in the forest with the NWCG, National Wildfire Coordinating Group help there will be lesser wildfires.
-Firefighters primarily use hand tools to build a fire line that separates burning fuel from unburned fuel.
Benefits
- Less risk of wildfires in populated ares.
Cons
-Disrupting the habitats of animals in the clearing ares.
Living with wildfires by Janet c. Arrowood
Schoennagel T. "Effects of Mountain Pine Beetle on Fuels and Expected Fire Behavior in Lodgepole Pine Forests, Colorado, USA." PLOS ONE:. N.p., 21 Sept. 2012.
Web. 22 Oct. 2012. <http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0030002>.
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Cole
Hawkins
Durango nature studies property
Introduction:
Durango natures studies purser is located in Durango, Colorado near the New Mexico border. This property is used for students to visit and study all of the wildlife the property consists of a variety of habitats, including
a desert on the upper half on the lower half is next to the Florida river very green and lots of plate life and animal life next to that is a pond where most of all the adfibeus life is.
There are bluegills and bullfrogs in the pond bullfrogs force leopard frogs out of the vegetation into open waters where then they get eaten by the bluegills.
The northern leopard frog or Scientific Name: Rana pipiens
northern leopard frog will eat anything it can get. It's diet consists of insects,worms and other small vertebrates. Adults pray mostly on land.young leopard fogs are called tadpoles they eat mostly plants.
In American or diet includes insects, other frogs,birds,small mammals. Young Bullfrogs are called pollywogs and have the external Gils, polliwogs eat plants and decaying animal matter.
Aggressive generalist predators
Methods and materials:
For pit fall traps were set up and checked daily to pitfalls at pond and river
Visual encounter surreys were conducted around the pond each
water chemistry test were conducted nitrates pulsates dissolved oxygen and pH for random veg plot surveys were conducted diversity
results:
Conclusion and discussion:
Our data tells us that there is an much bigger population of leopard frogs then bullfrogs. there was a higher levels in the pond then the river. The nitrates were higher in the river. our data dose not show any reason algal bloom. Our data was very effective in this project.
Durango nature studies property
Introduction:
Durango natures studies purser is located in Durango, Colorado near the New Mexico border. This property is used for students to visit and study all of the wildlife the property consists of a variety of habitats, including
a desert on the upper half on the lower half is next to the Florida river very green and lots of plate life and animal life next to that is a pond where most of all the adfibeus life is.
There are bluegills and bullfrogs in the pond bullfrogs force leopard frogs out of the vegetation into open waters where then they get eaten by the bluegills.
The northern leopard frog or Scientific Name: Rana pipiens
northern leopard frog will eat anything it can get. It's diet consists of insects,worms and other small vertebrates. Adults pray mostly on land.young leopard fogs are called tadpoles they eat mostly plants.
In American or diet includes insects, other frogs,birds,small mammals. Young Bullfrogs are called pollywogs and have the external Gils, polliwogs eat plants and decaying animal matter.
Aggressive generalist predators
Methods and materials:
For pit fall traps were set up and checked daily to pitfalls at pond and river
Visual encounter surreys were conducted around the pond each
water chemistry test were conducted nitrates pulsates dissolved oxygen and pH for random veg plot surveys were conducted diversity
results:
Conclusion and discussion:
Our data tells us that there is an much bigger population of leopard frogs then bullfrogs. there was a higher levels in the pond then the river. The nitrates were higher in the river. our data dose not show any reason algal bloom. Our data was very effective in this project.