Forest fires release absorbed carbon back into the atmosphere, as does deforestation due to rapidly increased oxidation of soil organic matter.

Forest fires resulting from non-urban targets could increase aerosol production further.

* 1950 – Forest fires black out the sun over portions of Canada and New England.

* Forest fires

c ) Forest fires leave standing snags, and leave patches of unburned trees.

As of 2009, the Forest Service has a total budget authority of $ 5. 5 billion, of which 42 % is spent fighting fires.

Further, the Forest Service fought fires on of land.

Forest fires destroyed much of the original forest cover which was succeeded by tussock grassland.

Forest fires and range fires are also known to cause significant weathering of rocks and boulders exposed along the ground surface.

Forest fires occur in the Ponderosa forests surrounding Mount Rushmore around every 27 years.

One segment originally seen on The Bullwinkle Show, " Stokey the Bear ", had been withheld from all reissues of the series because the U. S. Forest Service objected to the image of a bear that started forest fires.

* Both the U. S. Forest Service and the California Department of Forestry operate an Air Attack Base at the airport for fighting forest fires with aerial tankers.

Smokey Bear ( often called Smokey the Bear or simply Smokey ) is a mascot of the United States Forest Service created to educate the public about the dangers of forest fires.

A local Forest Ranger was accused of starting the fires intentionally in order to keep him in employment as his contract was due to expire.

Forest fires were a natural part of the Boundary Waters ecosystem before fire suppression efforts during the 20th century, with recurrence intervals of 30 – 300 years in most areas.

Forest fires in northern Canada, southeast of Great Slave Lake

: Fire: Human activity such as logging causes an increase in debris along forest floors that makes the Atlantic Forest more susceptible to fires.

Some, like Gaia's Forest, cause new forest to generate, which provides a far more effective wall that only villagers ( or forest fires or colossi ) can break through.

Forest fires and weeds also contribute to habitat destruction.

After the fires of 1881, people started to organize firefighting plans and by the 1900s the timber barons were suffering huge losses due to forest fires, so they developed the Northern Forest and Protection Association to manage forest fires in Michigan, later replaced by the USDA Forest Service.

I have just asked these questions in the Pentagon, in the White House, in offices of key scientists across the country and aboard the submarines that prowl for months underwater, with neat rows of green launch tubes which contain Polaris missiles and which are affectionately known as `` Sherwood Forest ''.

Inventory and evaluate wildlife habitat resources in cooperation with other Federal agencies and with the States in which National Forests and Grasslands are located, as a basis for orderly development of wildlife habitat improvement and coordination programs, including ( A ) big-game, gamebird, and small-game habitat surveys and investigations on the 186 million acres of National Forests and Grasslands, ( B ) fishery habitat surveys and investigations on the 81,000 miles of National Forest fishing streams and nearly 3 million acres of lakes and impoundments, and ( C ) participation in planning, inspection, and control phases of all habitat improvement, land and water use projects conducted on National Forest lands by States, other Federal agencies, and private groups to assure that projects will benefit wildlife and be in harmony with other resource values.

Furthermore, roads that give access to National Forest timber are investments which pay their own way over a period of years.

Approximately 40 percent of the value of the work on roads for access to timber which are planned for this period will be constructed by purchasers of National Forest timber, but paid for by the Government through adjustment of stumpage prices.

One consequence is the occurrence of occasional conflicts because private owners of some inholdings object to public programs of use on neighboring National Forest or other Federal land, or because such ownerships are developed for uses that are not compatible with use for the public of neighboring National Forest land.

And some, which are suitable for tree growing and for other National Forest purposes, are unmanaged or in need of expensive rehabilitation, and are contributing nothing to the economy ; ;

The long-range objective is to bring about consolidation of ownership through use of land exchange authority and through purchase on a moderate scale of inholdings which comprise key tracts for recognized National Forest programs such as recreation development, or which are a source of damage to lands in National Forests and National Grasslands.

In recent years many counties and the U. S. Forest Service have taken aerial photos which show features in detail and are very good for planning use.

Romantic news concerns Mrs. Joan Monroe Armour and F. Lee H. Wendell, who are to be married at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Lake Forest home of her brother, J. Hampton Monroe, and Mrs. Monroe.

The adult Christopher Robin commented: " Pooh's Forest and Ashdown Forest are identical ".

Upstream from it and between the Rhine and Abnoba ( in the Black Forest ) are the Ingriones, Intuergi, Vangiones, Caritni and Vispi, some of whom were there since the days of the early empire or before.

There are the Tubanti just south of the Chatti and at the other end of what was then the Black Forest, the Varisti, whose location is known.

During the last glacial period of the Würm glaciation, the Black Forest was covered by glaciers ; several tarns ( or lakes ) such as the Mummelsee are remains of this period.

Black Forest clockmakers are renowned for their precision clocks.

There are many old towns in the Black Forest.

Due to the rich mining history dating from medieval times ( the Black Forest was one of the most important mining regions of Europe circa 1100 ) there are many mines re-opened to the public.

* Black Forest Foxes are a breed of horse, previously indispensable for heavy field work.

Dialects spoken in the Black Forest area are Alemannic and Swabian.

Forest covers about two-thirds of the country, but it has been somewhat degraded in the more readily accessible areas by burning ( a method called slash-and-burn agriculture ), and by shifting agriculture.

There are 117 native trees and more than 1, 400 types of orchids, a third of them can be found in the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve.

Other federal agencies, such as the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Park Service pursue primarily conservation missions, while still others, such as the United States Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, tend to focus more on beneficial use of natural resources.

From the New Forest coven, Gardner formed his own Bricket Wood coven, and in turn initiated many Witches, including a series of High Priestesses, founding further covens and continuing the initiation of more Wiccans into the tradition.

In the Salon of that year, he exhibited Shepherdess Sitting at the Edge of the Forest, a very small oil which marked a turning away from previous idealized pastoral subjects, in favor of a more realistic and personal approach.

Niggle is reunited with his old neighbour, Parish, who now proves his worth as a gardener, and together they make the Tree and Forest even more beautiful.

Tureaud angered the residents of a Chicago suburb called Lake Forest, by cutting down more than a hundred oak trees on his estate.

Geoffrey Donovan of the U. S. Forest Service, one of the researchers, said, " trees, which provide a range of other benefits, could improve quality of life in Portland by reducing crime ..." and he said that is because " We believe that large street trees can reduce crime by signaling to a potential criminal that a neighborhood is better cared for and, therefore, a criminal is more likely to be caught.

The first mention of any location more exact than the New Forest comes from John Leland writing in 1530 who stated that the king died at Thorougham a placename which has since fallen into disuse but was probably located at what is now Park Farm on the Beaulieu estates.

As part of educational restructuring in the Wyre Forest district, Kidderminster's schools were reorganised from a three-tier system of first, middle and high schools to the two-tier system more common in the UK as a whole with primary schools and secondary schools.

The Forest Service has more than 600 ranger districts.

Syenite is not a common rock, some of the more important occurrences being in New England, Arkansas, Montana, New York ( syenite gneisses ), Switzerland, Germany, Norway, Malawi ( Mulanje Mountain Forest Reserve ) and Romania ( Ditrău ).

Forest leopards are also more specialized in prey selection and exhibit seasonal differences in activity patterns.

Despite being married twice more, Gable chose to be interred beside Lombard in Forest Lawn Memorial Park when he died in 1960.

He may have a more romantic legacy ; Roger Godberd, one of de Montfort's captains who survived Evesham, fought on until his capture in 1272 as a bandit or rebel in and around the Sherwood Forest area.

The young Louis XV was moved to the modern lodgings attached to the medieval fortress of Vincennes, located 7 km / 4. 5 miles east of Paris in the Forest of Vincennes, where the air was deemed more wholesome than in Paris.

These four viruses are: Bundibugyo virus ( BDBV ), Ebola virus ( EBOV ), Sudan virus ( SUDV ), and Taï Forest virus ( TAFV, formerly and more commonly Côte d ' Ivoire Ebola virus ( Ivory Coast Ebolavirus, CIEBOV )).

Edwin Schallert for the Los Angeles Times praised Davis's performance in Mr. Skeffington ( 1944 ), while observing, " the mimics will have more fun than a box of monkeys imitating Miss Davis ", and Dorothy Manners at the Los Angeles Examiner said of her performance in the poorly received Beyond the Forest ( 1949 ), " no night club caricaturist has ever turned in such a cruel imitation of the Davis mannerisms as Bette turns on herself in this one ".

( Forest is usually used in the British Isles only for more extensive wooded areas, again, regardless of density – and also including Royal forests, which may not be wooded at all ).

The laying out of the estate, gardens and woodlands provided a way for the Prince Consort to prove his knowledge of forestry and landscaping, an area in which previously at the more official royal residences he had been thwarted by the Commissioners of Woods and Forest.

Grant County contains most of the Malheur National Forest and sections of the Wallowa – Whitman, Umatilla and Ochoco National Forests, and has more than of federally-designated Wilderness Areas.

There is a significant federal presence in the region ; the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management administer more than 50 % of the county's land.

The translation of Kowi anuskasha is " The one who stays in the woods ", or to give a more concise translation, " Forest dweller ".

Taken as a whole, Waltham Forest comprises built-up urban districts in the south with inner-city characteristics, and more affluent residential development in the north with a variety of reservoirs, open space, small sections of Epping Forest, parks, and playing fields, which together cover a fifth of the borough.