Blazing heritage : a history of wildland fire in the national parks / Hal K. Rothman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rothman, Hal, 1958-2007.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wildfires--United States--History.

Wildfires.

Forest fires--United States--History.

Forest fires.

National parks and reserves--United States--History.

National parks and reserves.

Fire management.

History.

United States.

Fire management--United States--History.

Physical Description:

viii, 281 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

National parks played a unique role in the development of wildfire management on American public lands. With a different mission and powerful meaning to the public, the national parks were a psychic battleground for the contests between fire suppression and its use as a management tool. Blazing Heritage tells how the national parks shaped federal fire management.

Contents:

Fighting fire on horseback: the military in the national parks, 1872-1916

The development of a fire management structure

A decade of transformation: the new deal and fire policy

Ecology and the limits of suppression in the Postwar Era

Allowing fire in the national park system

Managing fire

Yellowstone and the politics of disaster

The hazard of new fortunes: outlet, cerro grande, and the twenty-fire century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-262) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0195311167

9780195311167

OCLC:

71173935

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