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Smokechasing : [a new look at wildfires by one of America's leading fire scholars] / Stephen J. Pyne.
Van Pelt Library SD421.3 .P963 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pyne, Stephen J., 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forest fires--United States--Prevention and control.
- Forest fires.
- Fire ecology.
- Fire prevention.
- United States.
- Fire prevention--United States.
- Fire ecology--United States.
- Forest fires--Prevention and control.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 260 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- Premier fire historian Stephen Pyne offers a thorough, readable assessment of the American wildfire situation, lending an expert voice to public discussion of the issues that threaten our cut-over, tinderbox forests.
- Contents:
- Why Smokechasing: An Author's Note ix
- Standard orders
- The Element That Isn't 5
- Buy This Book, Save the Planet 13
- Bearings, corrected and otherwise
- Hominid Hearth 19
- Fire's Lucky Country 26
- Old Fire, New Fire 38
- Place of Power 50
- Strange Fire: The European Encounter with Fire 52
- A Land Between 72
- Ecological Imperialism, and Its Retreat 89
- Extended attack
- The Source 101
- America's War on Fire 113
- The Two Cultures of Fire 117
- Waterdogs 121
- A Dumb Problem to Have 127
- When the Mountains Roared, Again 131
- Burning off
- Burning Deserts 141
- A Story to Tell 146
- Compassing About with Sparks 149
- An Incident at Praxis 160
- Doc Smith's History Lesson 165
- Back at the cache
- Smokechasing: The Search for a Usable Place 181
- Almost Lost 196
- An Exchange for All Things? 198
- Proscribed Burning 2 212
- Firebug 219
- Fire's New New Thing 224
- Paperwork
- The Literature of Forest Fires, If There Is Such a Literature 231
- A Privileged Phenomenon Which Can Explain Anything 237
- The Old Man and the Fire 244
- Green Skies of Montana 253
- Debriefing
- Why I Do It 259.
- Notes:
- Subtitle from cover.
- ISBN:
- 0816522847
- 0816522855
- OCLC:
- 50253086
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