Book description
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…
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There cannot be any book list on wildfire without one from the esteemed Stephen Pyne, who is a historian by training with a long, personal track record with fire that lets him bring richness and reality to his analysis and prose.
Sure, there are shorter and more compact books in his collection from his career (massive textbooks to short booklets), but this one spans a pivotal time for land management and wildfire suppression policies, coupled with human expansion and climate change, that embodies our emerging wildfire crisis–hence the ‘bookends’ of two fires.
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