- Description
- 1 online resource (203 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- To the last smoke / series by Stephen J. Pyne ; volume 2
- Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- To the last smoke ; v. 2.
- Uniform Title
- California (Online)
- Alternative Title
- California (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Prologue: conflagrating California -- California's invented fire cultures -- State of emergency -- Cajon Pass: portal to southern California -- Forests: southern California's fire rectangle -- 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.
- LCCN
- 2015035282
- OCLC
- ssj0001677672
- Author
Pyne, Stephen J., 1949-
- Title
California [electronic resource] : a fire survey / Stephen J. Pyne.
- Imprint
Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2016.
- Series
To the last smoke / series by Stephen J. Pyne ; volume 2
Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- To the last smoke ; v. 2.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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