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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rothman, Hal, 1958-2007.

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--United States--History.

Fire management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: The National Parks and Fire; ONE: Fighting Fire on Horseback: The Military in the National Parks, 1872-1916; TWO: The Development of a Fire Management Structure; THREE: A Decade of Transformation: The New Deal and Fire Policy; FOUR: Ecology and the Limits of Suppression in the Postwar Era; FIVE: Allowing Fire in the National Park System; SIX: Managing Fire; SEVEN: Yellowstone and the Politics of Disaster; EIGHT: The Hazard of New Fortunes: Outlet, Cerro Grande, and the Twenty-First Century; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R

ST; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-020806-6

1-281-16366-X

1-4294-6895-5

0-19-534552-5

9786611163662

OCLC:

922952832