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California : a fire survey / Stephen J. Pyne.
Van Pelt Library SD421.32.C2 C685 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- author.
- Series:
- Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- To the last smoke ; v. 2.
- To the last smoke / series by Stephen J. Pyne ; volume 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wildfires--California--History.
- Wildfires.
- Wildfires--California--Prevention--History.
- Forest fires.
- History.
- California.
- Forest fires--California--History.
- Forest fires--California--Prevention--History.
- Forest fires--Prevention and control.
- Wildfires--Prevention and control.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- "By its size, fire intensity, and institutional responses, California has long shaped the national agenda for wildland fire. From its early days, California decided for fire suppression. How and why this happened is the subject of this fire reconnaissance of America's Golden State for fire"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Conflagrating California: California's invented fire cultures; State of emergency
- Cajon Pass: Portal to Southern California: Four forests: southern California's fire rectangle; Three parks: traversing the transverse; Imperium in Imperio; Mending firewalls; Force majeure; Airing differences
- Interlude: California split
- Arch Rock: Portal to Northern California: The Tahoe crucible; Working fire; The pastures of purgatory; The big ones; Vignettes of primitive America: the sierra parks
- Epilogue: California between two fires.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816532612
- 0816532613
- OCLC:
- 929545670
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