Blazing Heritage: A History of Wildland Fire in the National Parks

by Hal K. Rothman

Overview

National parks played a unique role in the development of wildfire management on American public lands. With a different mission and powerful meaning to the public, the national parks were a psychic battleground for the contests between fire suppression and its use as a management tool. Blazing Heritage tells how the national parks shaped federal fire management.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190208066
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/12/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

Table of Contents

Introduction: The National Parks and Fire
Ch. 1. Fighting Fire on Horseback: The Military in the National Parks, 1872-1916
Ch. 2. The Development of a Fire Management Structure
Ch. 3. A Decade of Transformation: The New Deal and Fire Policy
Ch. 4. Ecology and the Limits of Suppression in the Post War Era
Ch. 5. Allowing Fire in the National Park System
Ch. 6. Managing Fire
Ch. 7. Yellowstone and the Politics of Disaster
Ch. 8. The Hazard of New Fortunes: Outlet, Cerro Grande, and the Twenty-First Century

Editorial Reviews

"Considering the aggregate of books about fire, this volume's importance is its concentration on national park lands. A weighty addition to the shelf of environmental history books."—Library Journal

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