"Frightening...Firestorm comes alive when Struzik discusses the
work of offbeat scientists." --New York Times Book Review
"Comprehensive and compelling." --Booklist "A powerful message."
--Kirkus "Should be required reading." --Library Journal For two
months in the spring of 2016, the world watched as wildfire ravaged
the Canadian town of Fort McMurray. Firefighters named the fire
"the Beast." It acted like a mythical animal, alive with
destructive energy, and they hoped never to see anything like it
again. Yet it's not a stretch to imagine we will all soon live in a
world in which fires like the Beast are commonplace. A glance at
international headlines shows a remarkable increase in higher
temperatures, stronger winds, and drier lands- a trifecta for
igniting wildfires like we've rarely seen before. This change is
particularly noticeable in the northern forests of the United
States and Canada. These forests require fire to maintain healthy
ecosystems, but as the human population grows, and as changes in
climate, animal and insect species, and disease cause further
destabilization, wildfires have turned into a potentially
uncontrollable threat to human lives and livelihoods. Our
understanding of the role fire plays in healthy forests has come a
long way in the past century. Despite this, we are not prepared to
deal with an escalation of fire during periods of intense drought
and shorter winters, earlier springs, potentially more lightning
strikes and hotter summers. There is too much fuel on the ground,
too many people and assets to protect, and no plan in place to deal
with these challenges. In Firestorm, journalist Edward Struzik
visits scorched earth from Alaska to Maine, and introduces the
scientists, firefighters, and resource managers making the case for
a radically different approach to managing wildfire in the 21st
century. Wildfires can no longer be treated as avoidable events
because the risk and dangers are becoming too great and costly.
Struzik weaves a heart-pumping narrative of science, economics,
politics, and human determination and points to the ways that we,
and the wilder inhabitants of the forests around our cities and
towns, might yet flourish in an age of growing megafires.
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