The Interior West : a Fire Survey.
Series: Pyne, Stephen J., To the last smoke ; v. 6. | To the last smoke ; volume 6Publisher: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2017Copyright date: 2018Description: x, 191 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780816537709
- 0816537704
- Wildfires -- Nevada -- History
- Wildfires -- Utah -- History
- Wildfires -- Colorado -- History
- Wildfires -- Nevada -- Prevention and control -- History
- Wildfires -- Utah -- Prevention and control -- History
- Wildfires -- Colorado -- Prevention and control -- History
- Forest fires -- Nevada -- History
- Forest fires -- Utah -- History
- Forest fires -- Colorado -- History
- Forest fires -- Nevada -- Prevention and control -- History
- Forest fires -- Utah -- Prevention and control -- History
- Forest fires -- Colorado -- Prevention and control -- History
- Feux de friches -- Nevada -- Histoire
- Feux de friches -- Utah -- Histoire
- Forest fires
- Forest fires -- Prevention and control
- Wildfires
- Wildfires -- Prevention and control
- Colorado
- Nevada
- Utah
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- SD421.32.N3 .P96 2017
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-186) and index.
Prologue: Arid lands, burning lands -- Nevada: from rotten borough to Burning Man -- The other side of the mountain: Washoe WUI -- A sink for exotics -- A worthy adversary -- Mushroom clouds -- Deep fire -- Outlier: Strip trip -- Utah: Zion's hearth -- CatFire: Wasatch WUI -- Burning bushes -- Plateau province -- Outlier: Mesa Negra -- Colorado: Rocky Mountain highs, and lows -- ColFire: the front as center -- Firebugs -- Then and now, now and to come -- Fatal fires, hidden histories -- Epilogue: The interior West between two fires.
"Surveys the fire scene characteristic of Nevada, Utah, and western Colorado through a mixture of journalism, history, and literary imagination that moves the topic beyond the usual science and policy formulations"--Provided by publisher.