[MCN] News blurbs: Drought and forests in No. America

[Lance Olsen]

Google alerts Weekly update ? July 25, 2015

Drought leaves Edmonton's urban forest shedding branches
CBC.ca
Drought leaves Edmonton's urban forest shedding branches ... 
Jeannette Wheeler, the city's supervisor of urban forests, said this 
is the driest year ...

Summer drought sparks more brush fires than usual
Miami Herald
Across Miami-Dade and Broward counties, 81 brush fires have singed 
nearly 6,363 acres over the past 3 1/2 months, according to the 
Florida Forest ...

Vancouver Island's largest forest fire happened during similar 
drought-filled summer
CHEK
A Duncan author and historian says there are some parallels between 
this summer and the summer when Vancouver Island saw its largest 
recorded ...

Drought-stricken California is burning, flooding at the same time
Washington Post
Amid California's historic drought, an even rarer weekend downpour 
that calmed wildfires also ... [The West is so dry even a rain forest 
is on fire].

Drought and climate change fuel high-elevation California fires, study finds
Daily Democrat
Wildfires in California's fabled Sierra Nevada mountain range are 
increasingly burning high-elevation forests, which historically have 
seldom burned, ...

BC declares highest drought level for Lower Fraser, south coast
The Globe and Mail
British Columbia's Forests Minister says soaring temperatures and 
paltry ... for northeastern B.C., but that would hardly be enough to 
end the drought ...

Drought, fires in Saskatchewan's future
Saskatoon StarPhoenix
All the models point to continued warming," he said. That means more 
forest fires, but also more extreme swings between flood and drought 
than ever ...


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"How does one justify trying to cope with what may be intractable 
problems? The very nature of the question belies its origins in the 
assumption of science that one has to believe that all problems are 
solvable."

Seymour Sarason. The Nature of Problem Solving in Social Action. 
American Psychologist. April, 1978
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" 'Triage' is a dirty word in some conservation circles, but like 
many dirty words, it describes something common. Whether they admit 
it or not, conservationists have long had to make decisions about 
what to save.

"As more and more admit it, open discussion about how the decisions 
are best made -- by concentrating on particular species, or 
particular places, or absolute costs, or any other criterion -- 
becomes possible. Whichever criteria come into play, one thing 
remains constant. The decisions have to be made quickly."

Emma Marris, "What To Let Go."
NATURE November 8, 2007
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