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Florida - A Fire Survey (Paperback)
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Florida - A Fire Survey (Paperback)
Series: To the Last Smoke
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Loot Price R508
Discovery Miles 5 080
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In Florida, fire season is plural, and it is most often a verb.
Something can always burn. Fires burn longleaf, slash, and sand
pine. They burn wiregrass, sawgrass, and palmetto. The lush growth,
the dry winters, the widely cast sparks-Florida is built to burn.
In this important new collection of essays on the region, Stephen
J. Pyne colorfully explores the ways the region has approached fire
management. Florida has long resisted national models of fire
suppression in favor of prescribed burning, for which it has ideal
environmental conditions and a robust culture. Out of this heritage
the fire community has created institutions to match. The
Tallahassee region became the ignition point for the national 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. Florida is the first book
in a multivolume series describing the nation's fire scene region
by region. The volumes in To the Last Smoke will also cover
California, the Northern Rockies, the Great Plains, the Southwest,
and several other critical fire regions. The series serves as an
important punctuation point to Pyne's fifty-year career with
wildland fire-both as a firefighter and a fire scholar. These
unique surveys of regional pyrogeography are Pyne's way of
""keeping with it to the end,"" encompassing the directive from his
rookie season to stay with every fire ""to the last smoke.
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