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The Northern Rockies A Fire Survey / Stephen J. Pyne.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- author.
- Series:
- To the last smoke / series by Stephen J. Pyne ; volume 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forest fires--Idaho--Prevention and control--History.
- Forest fires.
- Forest fires--Montana--Prevention and control--History.
- Forest fires--Rocky Mountains--Prevention and control--History.
- Forest fires--Idaho--History.
- Forest fires--Montana--History.
- Forest fires--Rocky Mountains--History.
- Wildfires--Idaho--Prevention and control--History.
- Wildfires.
- Wildfires--Montana--Prevention and control--History.
- Wildfires--Rocky Mountains--Prevention and control--History.
- Wildfires--Idaho--History.
- Wildfires--Montana--History.
- Wildfires--Rocky Mountains--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (158 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "The Northern Rockies is part of the multivolume series describing the nation's fire scene region by region. The volumes in To the Last Smoke also cover Florida, the Northern Rockies, the Great Plains, the Southwest, and several other critical fire regions"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prologue: where the mountains roar
- Portal: Lolo Pass
- The Missoula matrix
- Why Boise is not the national center of interagency fire
- The paradoxes of wilderness fire
- Fire's call of the wild
- Fire by parallax
- The embers will find a way
- Portal: gates of the mountains
- Young men, old men, and fire
- How I came to Mann Gulch
- What makes a fire significant?
- The big blowup
- The second big blowup
- The other big burn
- Epilogue: the Northern Rockies between two fires.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8165-3449-7
- OCLC:
- 953750884
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