| America's Fires: Management on Wildlands and Forests
by Stephen J. Pyne Fire is at the heart of many forest health and sustainability issues being discussed today. Written by the authoritative expert on the subject, this booklet documents the extraordinarily successful twentieth-century campaign to prevent and suppress wildland and forest fires. Ironically, this fire exclusion has altered ecosystems in ways that increase forest susceptibility to fires and also to insect attacks. Healthy forests in America require fire. At the same time urban expansion into wildland areas has caused logistical nightmares in fighting wildfires. The result, in some cases, has been saving individual homes while fires rage on to destroy valuable timber and recreational resources. | 
© 1997 by the
Forest History Society.
54 pp.; 18 photos;
21 maps and figures.
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