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America's Fires:
Management of 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.
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©
1997 by the
Forest History Society.
54 pp.; 18 photos;
21 maps and figures.
$8.95
plus $4.00 shipping.
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