Tending fire : coping with America's wildland fires / Stephen J. Pyne
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- Pyne, Stephen J., 1949-
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- Washington, DC : Island Press, c2004
- xvii, 238 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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- 1559635657
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- Preface
- Prologue. Seeing Meaning in the Flames
- Chapter 1. Why Fire
- Fire's Narrative
- The Imperial Narrative
- America's Narrative
- Rhythms and Reasons
- Chapter 2. The How of Fire Management
- Option 1. Let Burn
- Option 2. Suppress
- Option 3. Prescribe Burn
- Option 4. Change Combustibility
- The Elements Compounded
- Chapter 3. Sparks and Embers
- The Big Fire
- Firestop II and Firestart I
- Fire in the Mind
- Fire as Community
- Chapter 4. Flashpoints: Scenarios for the Future
- The Fires This Time, and Next
- The Not-Quite Vestal Fire on the No-Longer Virgin Lands
- The Big Burn
- Epilogue. Imagining Fire
- Appendix. Fire's American Century: A Statistical Suite
- Notes
- Further Reading.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-224) and index.
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