The Interior West: A Fire Survey: To the Last Smoke
Autor Stephen J. Pyneen Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 mar 2018
Its
fires
help
to
give
the
Interior
West
a
peculiar
character,
fundamental
to
its
natural
and
human
histories.
While
a
general
aridity
unites
the
region—defined
here
as
Nevada,
Utah,
and
western
Colorado—its
fires
illuminate
the
ways
that
the
region’s
various
parts
show
profoundly
different
landscapes,
biotas,
and
human
settlement
experiences.
In this collection of essays, fire historian Stephen J. Pyne explains the relevance of the Interior West to the national fire scene. This region 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’sArid Landsreport. Then its significance faded, and for most of the 20th century, the Interior West was the hole in the national donut of fire management. Recently the region has returned to prominence due to fires along its front ranges; invasive species, both exotics like cheatgrass and unleashed natives like mountain pine beetle; and fatality fires, notably at South Canyon in 1994.
The Interior West has long been passed over in national fire narratives. Here it reclaims its rightful place.
Included in this volume:
In this collection of essays, fire historian Stephen J. Pyne explains the relevance of the Interior West to the national fire scene. This region 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’sArid Landsreport. Then its significance faded, and for most of the 20th century, the Interior West was the hole in the national donut of fire management. Recently the region has returned to prominence due to fires along its front ranges; invasive species, both exotics like cheatgrass and unleashed natives like mountain pine beetle; and fatality fires, notably at South Canyon in 1994.
The Interior West has long been passed over in national fire narratives. Here it reclaims its rightful place.
Included in this volume:
- A summary of 19th- and 20th-century fire history in the Interior West
- How this important region inspired U.S. studies of landscape fire
- Why the region disappeared from national fire management discussions
- How the expansion of invasive species and loss of native species has affected the region’s fire ecology
- The national significance of fire in the Interior West
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780816537709
ISBN-10: 0816537704
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: 9 b&w illustrations, 1 map
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Arizona Press
Colecția University of Arizona Press
Seria To the Last Smoke
ISBN-10: 0816537704
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: 9 b&w illustrations, 1 map
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Arizona Press
Colecția University of Arizona Press
Seria To the Last Smoke
Recenzii
“An
invaluable
resource
for
students
of
fire
and
residents
of
the
West.”—Choice
"Pyne provides a unique perspective on where we as a fire community have been, and how far we have left to go."—Bryan Karchut, Fire and Aviation Staff Officer, Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests
"Pyne provides a unique perspective on where we as a fire community have been, and how far we have left to go."—Bryan Karchut, Fire and Aviation Staff Officer, Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests
Notă biografică
Stephen
J.
Pyne
is
a
historian
in
the
School
of
Life
Sciences
at
Arizona
State
University.
He
is
the
author
of
more
than
30
books,
mostly
on
wildland
fire
and
its
history
but
also
dealing
with
the
history
of
places
and
exploration,
includingThe
Ice,How
the
Canyon
Became
Grand,
andVoyager.
He
is
also
the
author
of
multiple
volumes
surveying
the
American
fire
scene,
includingBetween
Two
Fires:
A
Fire
History
of
Contemporary
Americaand
To
the
Last
Smoke,
a
suite
of
regional
reconnaissances,
all
published
by
the
University
of
Arizona
Press.
Descriere
America
is
a
confederation
of
regions
as
well
as
a
federation
of
states.
Its
fire
scene
is
best
understood
in
terms
of
those
regions,
of
which
the
Interior
West
is
one.
This
book
surveys
the
fire
scene
characteristic
of
Nevada,
Utah,
and
western
Colorado
through
a
mixture
of
journalism,
history,
and
literary
imagination
that
moves
the
topic
beyond
the
usual
science
and
policy
formulations
and
places
it
within
the
national
narrative.