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Ignacio Calderon and Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY Updated January 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM As thousands of people fled from fires that tore through Los Angeles County this month, you may have wondered ...
Today the United States Forest Service maintains that "fire, as a critical natural process, will be integrated into land and resource management plans and activities on a landscape scale, and across agency boundaries. Response to wildfire is based on ecological, social and legal consequences of fire.
Annual precipitation varies significantly within the mountainous terrain, with the highest precipitation in southwest North Carolina and the lowest near Asheville and in northeast Tennessee. [29] High altitudes hosting spruce-fir forest receive more than 2,000 millimeters (79 in) of precipitation while large swaths of lower elevation rainforest ...
Unaka National Forest was established by the U.S. Forest Service in North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia on July 24, 1920, with 840,996 acres (3,403.39 km 2). [1] On July 10, 1936, most of the forest was transferred to Pisgah National Forest, with the Virginia portion going to Jefferson National Forest, and the name was discontinued. [2]
A fast-spreading wildfire that erupted this week about 45 miles northwest of Los Angeles roared from nothing to nearly 10,000 acres − in a matter of hours. The Hughes Fire that started Wednesday ...
Virginia has a low risk of earthquakes, [17] especially in the northern part of the state. The Virginia seismic zone has not had a history of regular earthquake activity. Earthquakes are rarely above 4.5 in magnitude because Virginia is located centrally on the North American Plate, far from plate boundaries. Locations near tectonic plates ...
The Dismal Swamp Canal was authorized by Virginia in 1787 and by North Carolina in 1790. Construction began in 1793 and was completed in 1805. Construction began in 1793 and was completed in 1805. The canal, as well as a railroad constructed through part of the swamp in 1830, enabled the harvest of timber. [ 20 ]
The Piedmont region of Virginia is a part of the greater Piedmont physiographic region which stretches from the falls of the Potomac, Rappahannock, and James Rivers to the Blue Ridge Mountains. The region runs across the middle of the state from north to south, expanding outward to a width of nearly 190 miles at the border with North Carolina .