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Firescaping: Protecting Your Home with a Fire-Resistant Landscape 2nd Revised edition [Kietas viršelis]

  • Formatas: Hardback, 208 pages, aukštis x plotis: 261x210 mm, weight: 498 g, Color photos and illustrations throughout
  • Išleidimo metai: 08-Oct-2019
  • Leidėjas: Wilderness Press
  • ISBN-10: 1643590456
  • ISBN-13: 9781643590455
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Hardback, 208 pages, aukštis x plotis: 261x210 mm, weight: 498 g, Color photos and illustrations throughout
  • Išleidimo metai: 08-Oct-2019
  • Leidėjas: Wilderness Press
  • ISBN-10: 1643590456
  • ISBN-13: 9781643590455
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:

Learn the Essentials of Creating Beautiful, Fire-Resistant Properties

With wildfires getting more frequent and ferocious, approximately 120 million US citizens live with the threat of being overrun. Are you one of them? If so, Firescaping helps you create a safer environment. This unique form of landscaping design keeps your property healthy, clean, and clear. Land management expert Douglas Kent shares decades of experience working in many of the nation’s most flammable areas.

Get the information needed to determine your property’s degree of fire risk. Learn effective design strategies for your home and landscape, as well as key characteristics that make your propertymore accessible to firefighters. With checklists, simple instructions, and tips that truly work, this practical, hands-on guide is a valuable resource for homeowners, business owners, landscape professionals, and fire protection agencies. If you live in an area at risk, this book can help to prepare you and give you peace of mind.



This practical guide presents simple strategies for reducing the fire hazard of one’s property, including how to minimize the chances that a home will be damaged by wildfire.

Dedication iv
Acknowledgments iv
Introduction 1(3)
1 Identifying Fire Hazard Areas
4(7)
2 The Law and the Reality
11(4)
3 Protecting Yourself from Yourself
15(3)
4 What to Do During a Fire
18(5)
FIRESCAPING
23(68)
5 Prioritizing Your Time
24(4)
6 Roads
28(6)
7 Structures
34(6)
8 Driveways
40(2)
9 The Zone Theory
42(7)
10 Slopes
49(4)
11 Small Properties
53(2)
12 Ridgetop and Understory Properties
55(3)
13 Plant Selection and Fire Protection
58(22)
14 Landscape Features
80(6)
15 Emergency Water Systems
86(5)
MAINTENANCE
91(20)
16 Maintenance Priorities
92(5)
17 Maintenance for Zones 1 and 2
97(8)
18 Managing Wild Vegetation and Weeds
105(6)
POSTFIRE RECOVERY: CONTROLLING EROSION
111(18)
19 First Aid for Fire-Scarred Landscapes
112(8)
20 Holding Your Hill: Long-Term Strategies
120(9)
SUPPORTING YOUR COMMUNITY
129(10)
21 Community Obligations
130(4)
22 Managing a Community's Three Landscapes
134(5)
Further Information 139(1)
Glossary 140(3)
References and Selected Reading 143(4)
Index 147(2)
Plant Index 149(5)
About the Author 154