Its fires help give to the Interior West a peculiar character,
fundamental both to its natural and human histories. While a
general aridity unites the region, defined here as the states of
Nevada, Utah, and western Colorado, its fires illuminate the ways
its various parts show profoundly different landscapes, biotas, and
human settlement experiences. In this book, fire historian Stephen
J. Pyne explains the relevance of the region to the national fire
scene. The Interior West offered the first scientific inquiry into
landscape fire in the United States, including a map of Utah burns
published in 1878 as part of John Wesley Powell's arid lands
report. Then its significance faded and by the 20th century, the
region had become the hole in the national donut of fire
management. Pyne discusses the region's more recent return to
prominence due to fires along its front ranges; to invasive
species, both exotics like cheatgrass and unleashed natives like
mountain pine beetle; and to its fatality fires, notably at South
Canyon in 1994. The Interior West shows the variety of fire issues
in the region and their significance to the country overall through
thoughtful framing and lively essays.
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