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Tending fire : coping with America's wildland fires
- Title
- Tending fire : coping with America's wildland fires / Stephen J. Pyne.
- Author
- Pyne, Stephen J., 1949-
- Publication
- Washington, DC : Island Press, c2004.
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- Description
- xvii, 238 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-224) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue. Seeing meaning in the flames -- 1. Why fire? -- Fire's narrative -- An imperial narrative -- America's narrative -- Rhythms and reasons -- 2. Torch and shovel : the means of fire management -- Option 1. Let burn -- Option 2. Suppress -- Option 3. Prescribe burn -- Option 4. Change combustibility -- The elements compounded -- 3. Sparks and embers : ideas in the wind -- The big fire -- Firestop II and Firestart I -- Fire in the mind -- Fire as community -- 4. Flash points : fire scenarios for the future -- The fires this time and next -- The not-quite vestal fire on the no-long virgin land -- The big burn -- Epilogue. Imaging fire -- Appendix. Fire's American century : by the numbers.
- Call Number
- JBE 05-1250
- ISBN
- 1559635657 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004008094
- OCLC
- 55055188
- Author
- Pyne, Stephen J., 1949-
- Title
- Tending fire : coping with America's wildland fires / Stephen J. Pyne.
- Imprint
- Washington, DC : Island Press, c2004.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-224) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JBE 05-1250