The document discusses forest fires, noting that they can grow rapidly and spread through tree branches. While forest fires are often seen as harmful, the species native to fire-prone forests are adapted to fire and some even require fire to persist and breed. Suppressing fires for years has allowed fuels to accumulate, making fires more severe when they do occur.
The document discusses forest fires, noting that they can grow rapidly and spread through tree branches. While forest fires are often seen as harmful, the species native to fire-prone forests are adapted to fire and some even require fire to persist and breed. Suppressing fires for years has allowed fuels to accumulate, making fires more severe when they do occur.
The document discusses forest fires, noting that they can grow rapidly and spread through tree branches. While forest fires are often seen as harmful, the species native to fire-prone forests are adapted to fire and some even require fire to persist and breed. Suppressing fires for years has allowed fuels to accumulate, making fires more severe when they do occur.
Title of the Project : Putting out the forest fire using ………
Introduction
A forest fire is an uncontrolled fire that starts in foliage that is
taller than 2 meters. These fires can sometimes be started by combustion and heat from surface and ground fires, and they frequently grow to the size of a large inferno. A large forest fire may crown, or quickly spread through the trees' upper branches, before affecting the underbrush or the forest floor. As a result, forest fires frequently experience ferocious blowups that sometimes resemble firestorms.
The species of plants and animals that are native to those
habitats are either made better by or dependent on the occurrence of fire in order to persist and breed, despite the fact that forest fire is frequently perceived as harmful. Fire can enhance ecosystem health by lowering competition, enriching the soil with ash, and reducing illnesses and pests. Lightning strikes occur naturally in dry forests. Even some plant species' seeds need fire to germinate. Years of fire exclusion and suppression in the 19th and 20th centuries allowed fuels to accumulate in many areas that have historically experienced forest fires, such as forested areas of the western United States, altering the vegetation communities present and resulting in more severe conflagrations when fires do occur.