Controlling mature Ashe juniper in Texas with
crown fires.
More than 80 percent of Montana's lower-elevation, historically fire-adapted forests currently rate high/moderate for
crown fire hazard.
But also in a sense, no, because it did not stop the running
crown fire.
But the reality is that most
crown fires lose their intensity when they reach the edge of a community.
The
Crown Fire was the second-largest of three fires that in two weeks scorched more than 35,000 acres in northern Los Angeles County.
Suddenly several trees caught, blazing orange flames shooting up 200 feet - not quite a
crown fire where entire stands suddenly immolate, but worrisome nevertheless.
Through traffic on Aliso Canyon Road between Soledad Canyon Road and Angeles Forest Highway has been blocked since July 2004, when the 11,400-acre
Crown Fire burned across 12 miles of brush-covered hillside from Acton to the Littlerock Reservoir.
Sometimes a rapid
crown fire singes pine cones hut the seeds inside are protected.
This virtually guarantees that any ignition will turn into a hot, lethal
crown fire.
Aliso Canyon Road is closed to through traffic below the Angeles Forest Highway because the bridge was destroyed in the
Crown Fire.
And early in 1993, a 15,000-acre prescribed fire on New Mexico's Santa Fe National Forest was going fine - until 60-mph winds unexpectedly struck a small stand of pinyon pine and juniper, producing a
crown fire that caught a burning crew off-guard, killing one member (even though the Buchanan fire was later pronounced an ecological success).
In these days of complex biological issues, what we don't need is an intellectual
crown fire to divert our energies.
