Laptop Battery In a single day, an out-of-control forest fire has the ability to transform acres of pristine green pines into acres of ash and charred remains. Despite the danger and destruction that accompanies most blazes, the truth is that Pinelands forests actually benefit from occasional burnings. "Without forest fire, there would be no Pine Barrens," said John Kuser, forestry professor at Rutgers' Cook College. "Fire favors pines over oak, so burning essentially is what keeps it pines. It's part of their natural cycle."
The lookout tower that stands sentinel over the Pine Barrens from deep inside the wilderness at the opening of John McPhee's 1967 nonfiction book, "The Pine Barrens, " is long gone. But McPhee remains enchanted by the fire tower's location atop Bear Swamp Hill in Washington Township, southeastern Burlington County, just as librarians throughout New Jersey remain charmed by McPhee's writing. The tower that crowned Bear Swamp Hill was "right in the middle of the Pines, " born author said yesterday.
Thinkpad Kuser says that Pinelands forests - while easily susceptible to fires because of the typical large amounts of underbrush and dry porous soil - are better able to survive a forest fire than any other North American forest.
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Microsoft The reason why is that the Pinelands' dominant tree species is the pitch pine, a tree that thrives on fire due to several adaptations, Kuser said.
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Laptop Computers Pitch pine has thick bark, which protects it from fire damage. The tree also has the remarkable ability to "stump sprout," to regrow its trunk and limbs almost immediately after suffering heavy fire damage.
More than 35, 000 square miles of pine trees in British Columbia, the country's largest lumber exporting province, have already been wiped out by the insects. A spokesperson for Alberta's fire crews told The Globe and Mail newspaper the area has not had a fire for almost a century, making the old pine trees an attractive target for the creatures. They intend to torch 1, 300 hectares of pine forest, including part of the popular Banff National Park.
Laptop Computer "You could take a chainsaw to a pitch pine, and it'll still bounce back by the next season," Kuser said. The blackened remains of the woods burned last weekend in Berkeley Township, Ocean County, "will be up and running within two months," he said.
Montgomery said it's doubtful the Pine Barrens would have been preserved to the extent they have if McPhee hadn't written his book. "The Pine Barrens, " Montgomery said, influenced former Gov. Brendan Byrne to enact legislation designed to protect most of the Pine Barrens from development. "It is very nearly a miracle that so much of the Pine Barrens survives as it does today, " Montgomery said. McPhee, whose current project is a piece about travels on a tugboat on the Illinois River to be published in The New Yorker magazine, said he is thrilled and grateful that "The Pine Barrens" was chosen for One Book New Jersey.
Desktop Computer Pitch pines also rely on fire to signal its pinecones to open and release seeds. Called "serotinous" cones, the cones will open after the intense heat of a fire or in the late summer months after most trees have already dropped seeds.
Notebooks The advantage is that after a fire, the forest floor is cleared of dead leaves and underbrush, which allows the small seeds to reach the soil more quickly and increases the chances for new trees to sprout. Fires also allows more sunlight to reach the pine sprouts and help them grow.
Lenovo Fire-charred trees also release nutrients that may act as a fertilizer.
Hard Drive A secondary benefit of the controlled burns performed annually by the state Forest Fire Service is that it maintains the pines' ecological cycle. The prime purpose of the burns is to reduce the amounts of hazardous undergrowth in a forest that easily catches fire.
Travelstar The end result, Kuser said, is that pines thrive in the Pinelands while hardwoods such as scarlet, black and white oaks and maples get burned out before they can become dominant.
Gateway "Without forest fires, the entire Pinelands would likely convert over to oak," he said.
Laptop Parts Five of the largest forest fires in Burlington County
Software * 1963 - A series of 37 major fires burned 193,000 acres over three days in April. The fires destroyed or damaged 186 homes, 197 buildings, and killed seven people. One fire burned 76,000 acres, traveling 21 miles from the Country Lakes section of Pemberton Township across routes 70 and 72 to the Garden State Parkway.
Hard Drives * 1977 - A July fire destroyed 2,300 acres of woodland in Bass River State Forest. Four firefighters from the Eagleswood Volunteer Fire Department were killed fighting the blaze, which also forced the evacuation of the Bass River Recreation Area.
Electronics * 1992 - A series of four deliberately set fires and burned 14,000 acres on May 3. One of the fires eventually threatened the Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant off Route 9 in Lacy Township, Ocean County. Another burned 2,900 acres in Woodland Township. It destroyed one home and threatened about 100 others.
Canon * 1997 - A July 29 fire burned 1,800 acres in Washington Township and threatened historic Batsto Village.
Desktop Pc * 1999 - An errant bomb dropped from an Air Force fighter during training at the Warren Grove Bombing Range in Bass River sparked a fire that burned 11,285 acres of Pinelands.
Desktop Computers By David Levinsky
Burlington County Times - 6/9/2002
Topic: Fire
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