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"The book is a fire history of Yosemite National Park, with the Illioutte Basin watershed a specific focusing point of discussion, told via two interlocking narratives, historical and personal. It's a story of the role of fire in shaping the park and the human dramas within it, and the evolution of fire management philosophy as generations of stewards attempt to reconcile disparate ideas of wilderness and control in an iconic landscape. The major argument of the manuscript follows that wildfire has a long history within the Park and that historic human intervention into that fire has complicated the relationship greatly. Also, that the story is still evolving and has an uncertain future. Throughout, the author discusses elements of fire ecology, sociopolitical factors, and personalities who have contributed to shaping the current state of fire management in the Park"--

Cover -- Series List -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Preface: To the Last Smoke -- Preface to Volume 7 -- PROLOGUE: Dark Days -- A Song of Ice and Fire-and ICE -- Where the Past Is the Key to the Present -- Fire's Keystone State -- Bog and Burn: The New Jersey Pinelands -- Fire on the Mountain -- Albany Pine Bush -- Where You Find It: Staten Island -- The Forest as Garden: Charles Sprague Sargent -- Pitch Pine and Least Tern -- The WUI Within -- The View from Bill Patterson's Study -- Maine's Epicycles of Fire -- Collective Security: The Northeast Forest Fire Protection Compact -- Westward, the Course of Empire -- EPILOGUE: The Northeast Between Two Fires -- Note on Sources -- Notes -- Index -- Illustrations -- About the Author.

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: Small Book, Big Story by William Cronon -- Introduction: Kindling -- 1. Fire and Earth: Creating Combustion -- How Fire Came to Be -- Fire and Life -- First Fire Today -- Touched by Fire -- 2. Frontiers of Fire (Part 1): Fire Colonizing by Hominins -- What Made Early Fires Effective -- First Contact: When Fire Arrives -- Lost Contact: When Fire Departs -- 3. Aboriginal Fire: Controlling the Spark -- Why They Burned -- Where and How They Burned -- Dying Fire: When the Firestick Leaves -- 4. Agricultural Fire: Cultivating Fuel -- The Fire in Agriculture's Hearth -- How to Cultivate Fire -- What They Meant to Each Other -- Rites of Fire -- 5. Frontiers of Fire (Part 2): Fire Colonizing by Agriculture -- How Conversion Leads to Colonization -- Stories from the Fire Frontier -- Comings and Goings of Agricultural Fire Today -- 6. Urban Fire: Building Habitats for Fire -- Hearth and House: Making a Home for Fire -- Built to Burn: A Fire Ecology for the City Combustible -- The Eternal Flame Invisible: Fire in the Industrial City -- 7. Pyrotechnics: Fire and Technology -- Prometheus Unchained -- Cycles of Pyrotechnology: How Fire Has Cooked the Earth -- Fire Powers: Controlled-and Not-So-Controlled-Fire as Mover and Shaker -- Fire in the Mind -- 8. Frontiers of Fire (Part 3): Fire Colonizing by Europe -- How Europe Expanded Fire's Realm -- How Europe Contained Fire's Realm -- How Europe Redefined Fire's Realm -- 9. Industrial Fire: Stoking the Big Burn -- How Industrial Combustion Has Added Fire -- How Industrial Combustion Has Subtracted Fire -- How Industrial Combustion Has Rearranged Fire Regimes -- 10. The Future of Fire: Burning Beyond the Millennium -- As the World Burns: What Is and Isn't Burning, and Where -- Still the Keeper of the Flame.

Intro -- Contents -- Series Preface: To the Last Smoke -- Preface to Volume 6 -- Map of the Interior West Region -- 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 -- Photographs -- 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 -- Note on Sources -- Notes -- Index

"The Tallahassee region became the ignition point for the fire revolution of the 1960s; today, it remains the Silicon Valley of prescription burning. How and why this happened is the topic of a fire reconnaissance that begins in the panhandle and follows Floridian fire south to the Everglades"--

"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

Intro -- Contents -- Series Preface: To the Last Smoke -- Preface to Volume 2 -- Map of California -- Prologue: Conflagrating California -- California's Invented Fire Culture -- State of Emergency -- Cajon Pass: Portal to Southern California -- Four Forests: Southern California's Fire Rectangle -- Three 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 -- Note on Sources -- Notes -- Index.

"The Northern Rockies is part of the multivolume series describing the nation's fire scene region by region. The volumes in To the Last Smoke also cover Florida, the Northern Rockies, the Great Plains, the Southwest, and several other critical fire regions"--

For over 400 million years, fire has been an integral force on our planet. It can be as innocent as a bonfire or as destructive and lethal as a wildfire. Human history is rife with fires that have leveled cities-the Fire of Moscow in 1812 that destroyed seventy-five percent of the city, the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 that took down 17,000 buildings, and the fire that obliterated San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake are just a few. Fire is a force of nature that can consume everything in its wake, and yet it also has tremendous powers of cleansing and renewal. At the end of the day, we

"America's Fires reviews the historical context of our fire issues and policies that can inform the current and future debate. The forecast makes it imperative that the nation review its policies toward wildland fires and find ways to live with them more intelligently"--Provided by publisher