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Smokechasing : [a new look at wildfires by one of America's leading fire scholars] / Stephen J. Pyne.

Title: Smokechasing : [a new look at wildfires by one of America's leading fire scholars] / Stephen J. Pyne.
Author: Pyne, Stephen J., 1949-
Publication: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2003], ©2003.

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xi, 260 pages; 23 cm

Summary

""Smokechasing" is an American coinage describing the practice of sending firefighters into the wild to track down the source of reported smoke. Now a self-described "friendly fire critic" tracks down more of the history and lore of fire in a collection that focuses on wildland fire and its management. Building on and complementing a previous anthology, World Fire, this new collection features thirty-two original articles and substantial revisions of works that have previously appeared in print.".
"Pyne addresses many issues that have sparked public concern in the wake of widespread wildfires in the West, such as fire ecology, federal fire management, and questions relating to fire suppression. He observes that the mistake in fire policy has been not that wildfires are suppressed but that controlled fires are no longer ignited; yet the attempted forced reintroduction of fire through prescribed burning has proved difficult, and sometimes damaging.
There are, Pyne argues, many fire problems; some have technical solutions, some not. But there is no evading humanity's unique power and responsibility: what we don't do may be as ecologically powerful as what we do."--BOOK JACKET.

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Contents

A Privileged Phenomenon Which Can Explain Anything -- The Old Man and the Fire -- Green Skies of Montana -- Debriefing -- Why I Do It.
Why Smokechasing: An Author's Note -- Standard orders -- The Element That Isn't -- Buy This Book, Save the Planet -- Bearings, corrected and otherwise -- Hominid Hearth -- Fire's Jucky Country -- Old Fire, New Fire -- Place of Power -- Strange Fire: The European Encounter with Fire -- A Land Between -- Ecological Imperialism, and Its Retreat -- Extended attack -- The Source -- America's War on Fire -- The Two Cultures of Fire -- Waterdogs -- A Dumb Problem to Have -- When the Mountains Roared, Again -- Burning off -- Burning Deserts -- A Story to Tell -- Compassing About with Sparks -- An Incident at Praxis -- Doc Smith's History Lesson -- Back at the cache -- Smokechasing: The Search for a Usable Place -- Almost Lost -- An Exchange for All Things? -- Proscribed Burning 2 -- Firebug -- Fire's New New Thing -- Paperwork -- The Literature of Forest Fires, If There Is Such a Literature --

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2002011504

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Columbia University Libraries