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Incendios En Los Pinares De Las Zonas Montañosas De La República Dominicana: La Visión De Fondo, Sally P Horn
Incendios En Los Pinares De Las Zonas Montañosas De La República Dominicana: La Visión De Fondo, Sally P Horn
Geography Publications and Other Works
Fire in Highland Pine Forests of the Dominican Republic―The Long View
Large forest fires in Valle Nuevo National Park in 2014 and 2015 have increased interest in fire as an ecological force in montane pine forests of the Dominican Republic. Geographer Dr. José Ramón Martínez Batlle estimated using Landsat imagery and GIS that some 4700 ha burned in July 2014 (http://www.geografiafisica.org/2014/07/29/superficie-quemada-incendio-valle-nuevo/), and an additional 1600 ha burned in late April 2015 (http://www.geografiafisica.org/2015/09/25/superficie-quemada-en-valle-nuevo-finales-de-abril-principios-de-mayo-2015/).
Since 1995, when I first visited what is today Valle Nuevo National Park (then, Valle Nuevo Scientific Reserve), as a guest of the Moscoso …