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The Southwest : a fire survey / Stephen J. Pyne.
Van Pelt Library SD421.32.A6 P96 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- author.
- Series:
- Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- To the last smoke ; v. 4.
- To the last smoke / series by Stephen J. Pyne ; volume 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wildfires--Arizona--History.
- Wildfires.
- Wildfires--Southwest, New--History.
- Wildfires--Arizona--Prevention--History.
- Forest fires.
- History.
- Arizona.
- Wildfires--Southwest, New--Prevention--History.
- New Southwest.
- Forest fires--Arizona--History.
- Forest fires--Southwest, New--History.
- Forest fires--Arizona--Prevention--History.
- Forest fires--Southwest, New--Prevention--History.
- Forest fires--Prevention and control.
- Wildfires--Prevention and control.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 192 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- "The Southwest is part of the multivolume series describing the nation's fire scene region by region. The volumes in To the Last Smoke also cover California, the Northern Rockies, the Great Plains, Florida, and several other critical fire regions"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prologue: cycles of fire
- Sacred mountains
- The Jemez: genesis effect
- The Mogollon: after the west was won
- The Huachucas: fire's borderlands
- The Kaibab: friendly fire
- Sky islands
- Rhymes with Chiricahua
- Top-down ecology: Mount Graham
- The view from Tanque Verde
- Borders and rims
- Reinventing a fire commons
- Thinking like a burnt mountain
- Under and over the Tonto Rim
- Rising from the ashes
- Squaring the triangle
- A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a crew in Yarnell
- Epilogue: the Southwest between two fires.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-188) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816532483
- 0816532486
- OCLC:
- 936433392
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