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Author | : Stephen J. Pyne |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 681 |
Release | : 2017-01-27 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0295805218 |
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From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.
Author | : Stephen J. Pyne |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 2015-10-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0816532141 |
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From a fire policy of prevention at all costs to today's restored burning, Between Two Fires is America's history channeled through the story of wildland fire management. Stephen J. Pyne tells of a fire revolution that began in the 1960s as a reaction to simple suppression and single-agency hegemony, and then matured into more enlightened programs of fire management. It describes the counterrevolution of the 1980s that stalled the movement, the revival of reform after 1994, and the fire scene that has evolved since then. Pyne is uniquely qualified to tell America’s fire story. The author of more than a score of books, he has told fire’s history in the United States, Australia, Canada, Europe, and the Earth overall. In his earlier life, he spent fifteen seasons with the North Rim Longshots at Grand Canyon National Park. In Between Two Fires, Pyne recounts how, after the Great Fires of 1910, a policy of fire suppression spread from America’s founding corps of foresters into a national policy that manifested itself as a costly all-out war on fire. After fifty years of attempted fire suppression, a revolution in thinking led to a more pluralistic strategy for fire’s restoration. The revolution succeeded in displacing suppression as a sole strategy, but it has failed to fully integrate fire and land management and has fallen short of its goals. Today, the nation’s backcountry and increasingly its exurban fringe are threatened by larger and more damaging burns, fire agencies are scrambling for funds, firefighters continue to die, and the country seems unable to come to grips with the fundamentals behind a rising tide of megafires. Pyne has once again constructed a history of record that will shape our next century of fire management. Between Two Fires is a story of ideas, institutions, and fires. It’s America’s story told through the nation’s flames.
Author | : United States. National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Fire extinction |
ISBN | : |
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The striking aspect of the Nation's fire problem is the indifference with which Americans confront the subject. Destructive fire takes a huge toll in lives, injuries, and property losses, yet there is no need to accept those losses with resignation. There are many measures, often very simple precautions, that can be taken to reduce those losses significantly. To encourage solutions to these problems, the National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control has made recommendations in this report.
Author | : Paul R. Lyons |
Publisher | : National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Dani Anguiano |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1324005157 |
Download Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The harrowing story of the most destructive American wildfire in a century. On November 8, 2018, the ferocious Camp Fire razed nearly every home in Paradise, California, and killed at least 85 people. Journalists Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano reported on Paradise from the day the fire began and conducted hundreds of in-depth interviews with residents, firefighters and police, and scientific experts. Fire in Paradise is their dramatic narrative of the disaster and an unforgettable story of an American town at the forefront of the climate emergency.
Author | : Michael L. Cooper |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2014-03-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0805097147 |
Download Fighting Fire! Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From colonial times to the modern day, two things have remained constant in American history: the destructive power of fires and the bravery of those who fight them. Fighting Fire! brings to life ten of the deadliest infernos this nation has ever endured: the great fires of Boston, New York, Chicago, Baltimore, and San Francisco, the disasters of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, the General Slocum, and the Cocoanut Grove nightclub, the wildfire of Witch Creek in San Diego County, and the catastrophe of 9/11. Each blaze led to new firefighting techniques and technologies, yet the struggle against fires continues to this day. With historical images and a fast-paced text, this is both an exciting look at firefighting history and a celebration of the human spirit.
Author | : National Commission on Fire And Control |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2014-12-24 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9781312782440 |
Download America Burning: The Report of the National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: Transmitted with this letter is the final report of the National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control. The report is based on almost 2 years of work by the Commission. We believe it presents the most significant fire safety problems, and the greatest opportunities for fire loss reduction, in the United States today. The vast majority of the Commission agreed with all fundamental issues. Over $11 billion of our resources are wasted by destructive fires each year. Additionally, 12,000 people are killed and tens of thousands of persons are scarred physically and emotionally by fire. Recommendations are presented in this report which, if implemented, will significantly reduce this great toll. The recommendations emphasize prevention of fire through implementation of local programs. This is in keeping with the very nature of the fire problem which is felt hardest at the community level...
Author | : Stephen J. Pyne |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2019-04-09 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0816538905 |
Download The Northeast Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 of and policy toward fire How fire fits into the region today What fire in the region means for the rest of the country What changes in climate, land use, and institutions may mean for the region
Author | : United States. National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Fire extinction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States. National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control |
Publisher | : Fema |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Fire prevention |
ISBN | : |
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