Addressing the toxic legacy of abandoned mines on public land in the western United States

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome V. DeGraff
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Abandoned Mines ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Public Land

scholarly journals Evacuation Behavior during Wildfires: Results of Three Case Studies

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia J. Cohn ◽  
Matthew S. Carroll ◽  
Yoshitaka Kumagai
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Public Land ◽  
Structured Interviews

Abstract Evacuation of rural communities threatened by wildfires is occurring more often, particularly in the western United States. Residents, public safety officials, community leaders, and public land managers are facing the issues and problems of this new experience. We used semi-structured interviews to elicit the evacuation experience from the viewpoint of evacuees and public safety officials in three case studies of wildfire evacuations in the western United States during 2000 and 2002. (Our interviews were conducted only with Teller County residents and officials.) We identify and describe the stages of the evacuation process as experienced by evacuees, and the dynamics and dilemmas associated with each stage. We analyze these perceptions and dynamics using the sociological lenses of social construction of meaning and structuration. The results indicate that evacuees and public safety officials have different perceptions and concerns about the evacuation process. We derive lessons learned from these three cases for use in planning future wildfire evacuations.

The dynamic path of recreational values following a forest fire: a comparative analysis of states in the Intermountain West

2001 ◽  
Vol 31 (10) ◽  
pp. 1837-1844 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Englin ◽  
John Loomis ◽  
Armando González-Cabán
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Forest Fire ◽  
Travel Cost ◽  
Demand Analysis ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Public Land ◽  
Intermountain West ◽  
Highly Nonlinear ◽  
Dynamic Path

This analysis examines the dynamic path of recreational values following a forest fire in three different states in the intermountain western United States. The travel cost demand analysis found that annual recreation values after a fire follow a highly nonlinear intertemporal path. The path is S-shaped, providing a range of benefits and losses in the years following a fire. While the results discourage the use of a single value throughout the Intermountain West, they do provide a range of likely values that public land managers can apply to fire-affected areas in their jurisdictions.

Writing Time in Metaphors

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Entire System ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Space Race ◽  
Do So

Coherence of place often exists alongside irregularities in time in cycles, and chapter three turns to cycles linked by temporal markers. Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles (1950) follows a linear chronology and describes the exploration, conquest, and repopulation of Mars by humans. Conversely, Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine (1984) jumps back and forth across time to narrate the lives of interconnected families in the western United States. Bradbury’s cycle invokes a confluence of historical forces—time as value-laden, work as a calling, and travel as necessitating standardized time—and contextualizes them in relation to anxieties about the space race. Erdrich’s cycle invokes broader, oppositional conceptions of time—as recursive and arbitrary and as causal and meaningful—to depict time as implicated in an entire system of measurement that made possible the destruction and exploitation of the Chippewa people. Both volumes understand the United States to be preoccupied with imperialist impulses. Even as they critique such projects, they also point to the tenacity with which individuals encounter these systems, and they do so by creating “interstitial temporalities,” which allow them to navigate time at the crossroads of language and culture.

Characterizing fire behavior from laboratory burns of multi-aged, mixed-conifer masticated fuels in the western United States

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faith Ann Heinsch ◽  
Pamela G. Sikkink ◽  
Helen Y. Smith ◽  
Molly L. Retzlaff
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Fire Behavior ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Mixed Conifer

Women's Studies in the Western United States

NWSA Journal ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-189
Author(s):  
Karen L. Salley ◽  
Barbara Scott Winkler ◽  
Megan Celeen ◽  
Heidi Meck
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Women’S Studies
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