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Table 20.4: Fire Risk Analysis Setting Fuel Weather Topography (Coordinates) low, medium, or low, medium, or low, medium, or high? high? high? Redwood coast on a foggy day (41.21,-124.0) San Bernardino Mountains during Santa Ana wind conditions (34.20, -117.13) Joshua Tree National Park on an autumn afternoon (34.01, -116.10) 15. Use Your Critical Thinking Skills: Assume that you are a Forest Manager in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Your concern is the health and safety of the forest as well as 472 | Lab 20: Biogeography
providing a place for people to recreate. Relate your answers to the questions below to the three elements of fire behavior. Your response to each question should be two to three sentences in length. a. What could you do to mitigate the impacts of these elements of fire behavior? b. Would it be best to suppress all fires or allow some to burn? How might this decision impact fire behavior? c. If you were issuing campfire permits to people visiting your forest, what considerations would you use to decide if it were safe to issue a permit? d. A developer wants to convert some private land near your forest to residential vacation homes. Knowing that your forest periodically burns, what concerns would you have? What practices would you want the property owners to implement? Why? e. What impacts would a changing climate (namely, higher temperatures) have on
c. If you were issuing campfire permits to people visiting your forest, what considerations would you use to decide if it were safe to issue a permit? d. A developer wants to convert some private land near your forest to residential vacation homes. Knowing that your forest periodically burns, what concerns would you have? What practices would you want the property owners to implement? Why? I e. What impacts would a changing climate (namely, higher temperatures) have on your forest and periodic forest fires?