Tending fire : coping with America's wildland fires / Stephen J. Pyne.
Washington, DC : Island Press, c2004Description: xvii, 238 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1559635657 (cloth : alk. paper)
- SD421.3 .P96 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-224) and index.
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.