Here is the first of the three zines I made for teaching wildfire science. I had this zine printed and folded for the students so we could walk around the reserve and discuss the following concepts with examples on the landscape itself. Active learning.
The fire triangle defines the needs of a fire to grow or if you are managing it, to maintain or shrink it.
An illustrated outline of the chemistry of fire.
The physics of combustion.
How energy is released from a wildfire.
How spacing of fuels influence fire spread.
The recent fire history of California.
The relatively small amount of controlled burning in California compared to natural fires. We need to do much, much more!
How the complex fire history of an area creates pyrodiversity.