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For two months in the spring of 2016, the world watched as wildfire ravaged the Canadian town of Fort McMurray. Firefighters named the fire “the Beast.” It acted like a mythical animal, alive with destructive energy, and they hoped never to see anything like it again. Yet it’s not a stretch to imagine we will all soon live in a world in which fires like the Beast are commonplace. A glance at international headlines shows a remarkable increase in higher temperatures, stronger winds, and drier lands– a trifecta for igniting wildfires like we’ve rarely seen before. This change is particularly noticeable in the northern forests of the United States and Canada. These forests require fire to maintain healthy ecosystems, but as the human population grows, and as changes in climate, animal and insect species, and disease cause further destabilization, wildfires have turned into a potentially uncontrollable threat to human lives and livelihoods. Our understanding of the role fire plays in healthy forests has come a long way in the past century. Despite this, we are not prepared to deal with an escalation of fire during periods of intense drought and shorter winters, earlier springs, potentially more lightning strikes and hotter summers. There is too much fuel on the ground, too many people and assets to protect, and no plan in place to deal with these challenges. In this book, the author visits scorched earth from Alaska to Maine, and introduces the scientists, firefighters, and resource managers making the case for a radically different approach to managing wildfire in the 21st century. Wildfires can no longer be treated as avoidable events because the risk and dangers are becoming too great and costly. The author weaves a heart-pumping narrative of science, economics, politics, and human determination and points to the ways that we, and the wilder inhabitants of the forests around our cities and towns, might yet flourish in an age of growing megafires.

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"In Swamplands, Ed Struzik takes us on a journey into the world's vanishing fens, bogs, and marshes-revealing fascinating details about the importance and intricacy of this "endangered ecosystem." Millions of acres of peatlands (the broader name for this kind of habitat) are drained each year to create access to tar sands, and land for agriculture and industrial development-and to harvest peat for garden fertilizers, whiskey distilling, water filters, and feminine sanitary products. And yet, these ecosystems are as biologically diverse, and globally important, as rainforests: home to an incredible diversity of life that just happens to be mostly bugs and smaller critters-not the charismatic species that other protected area systems have been built around (grizzly bears, orangutans, etc.) Ed explains the value of these ecosystems-water quality, carbon storage, and who knows what else because we haven't really studied them in great detail!-while clearly explaining the mounting threats to their existence. We worry about endangered animals and have programs to attempt to save them-but, he asks, what about an endangered ecosystem? We still have time to protect what's left of these remarkable places, but people need to know they exist-hence, this book: Ed's love letter to a kind of place only the hardiest of human souls can spend much time in, but which has vast implications for our planet remaining livable; and a call for awareness and protection of these special, unique places"--

Swamp ecology. --- Peatland ecology.