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The Northeast - A Fire Survey (Paperback)
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The Northeast - A Fire Survey (Paperback)
Series: To the Last Smoke
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Loot Price R511
Discovery Miles 5 110
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Repeatedly, if paradoxically, the Northeast has led national
developments in fire. Its intellectuals argued for model preserves
in the Adirondacks and at Yellowstone, oversaw the first mapping of
the American fire scene for the 1880 census, staffed the 1896
National Academy of Sciences forest commission that laid down
guidelines for the national forests, and spearheaded legislation
that allowed those reserves to expand by purchase. It trained the
leaders who staffed those protected areas and produced most of
America's first environmentalists. The Northeast has its roster of
great fires, beginning with dark days in the late 18th century,
followed by a chronicle of conflagrations continuing as late as
1903 and 1908, with a shocking after-tremor in 1947. It hosted the
nation's first forestry schools. It organized the first interstate
(and international) fire compact. And it was the Northeast that
pioneered the transition to the true Big Burn-industrial
combustion-as America went from burning living landscapes to
burning lithic ones. In this new book in the To the Last Smoke
series, renowned fire expert Stephen J. Pyne narrates this history
and explains how fire is returning to a place not usually thought
of in America's fire scene. He examines what changes in climate and
land use mean for wildfire, what fire ecology means for cultural
landscapes, and what experiments are underway to reintroduce fire
to habitats that need it. The region's great fires have gone; its
influence on the national scene has not. The Northeast: A Fire
Survey samples the historic and contemporary significance of the
region and explains how it fits into a national cartography and
narrative of fire. Included in this volume: How the region shaped
America's understanding and policy toward fire How fire fits into
the region today and what that means for the country overall What
changes in climate, land use, and institutions may mean for
northeastern fire, both wild and tame
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