Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The large Florence Fire, which had started approximately 30 miles (48 km) north of the border, eventually joined what was known as the Sour Biscuit Fire, which was burning very close to the border. Once the massive Biscuit Fire was created, it ended up burning a total of 500,000 acres (2,000 km 2 ), and the fire was unable to be fully contained ...
You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.
Burry's is a food manufacturer, founded as Burry's Biscuit Corporation by George W. Burry [2] in 1888 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. [1] It became a division of the Quaker Oats Company in 1962. [ 3 ] The company was one of the manufacturers of Girl Scout cookies from 1936 until 1989.
One highly publicized instance of salvage logging followed the Biscuit Fire in Oregon and California in 2002. After the fire, the United States Forest Service salvaged timber burned by the fire. The process was expedited when President George W. Bush signed the Healthy Forests Restoration Act allowing salvage logging to occur more quickly and ...
English: A map of the states and provinces affected by the w:2003 North America blackout. The map shows an entire state or province as red, when in some cases only a small portion (e.g. NJ) may have lost power. This greatly exaggerates the actual area of the blackout.
The Chetco Bar Fire area is subject to warm, dry winds known as the Brookings effect (also known as Chetco Effect), driven by high pressure over the Great Basin. The fire re-burned portions of the 2002 Biscuit Fire and the 1987 Silver Fire. The fire directly impacted communities surrounding it, causing mandatory evacuations.
Toye is the author of Freedom Star: Prophecies that Heal Earth; [10] A Teacher Appears; [11] and the New World Atlas books. [12] In addition to the I Am America map, Toye published and sold the Freedom Star World map, the Golden Cities map, and an Earth Changes Progression series of maps.
Some forestry scientists, and the Bush administration, proposed that salvage logging—removal of dead trees, many still usable as timber, after a fire—was necessary for fire safety and forest regeneration. [2] Donato et al.'s research provided some evidence contradicting this view. They compared sections of the burn which were burned ...