Of Fires and Foraging
Of Fires and Foraging
This chapter turns to the role of fire in forest ecology. The British army chose the Carmel woodland for staging a final blow against the vanquished Ottoman forces to take control of Palestine at the end of World War I. The trees survived all this, as well as intermittent forest fires that have struck the Carmel over the millennia. Indeed, fire became a critical component of the local forest ecology that evolved. The chapter notes that the blaze of 2010 was qualitatively different in its ferocity. The chapter describes what happened during and after this blaze and others of similar character and how they have been managed. The number of forest fires in Israel has increased dramatically over the past twenty years, despite increased sophistication in prevention and response. The story of Israel's fight to save its forests from fires is an impressive one.
Keywords: fire, forest ecology, Carmel, blaze of 2010, forest fires
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