Burning Questions: America's Fight with Nature's Fire
- ISBN-10
- 0275973719
- ISBN-13
- 9780275973711
- Series
- Burning Questions
- Category
- Forest ecology
- Pages
- 298
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Greenwood Publishing Group
- Author
- David Carle
Description
Fire suppression caused a surfeit of natural fuels in our forests, cumulating in the increasingly severe, uncontrollable fires of recent years: the fires in Yellowstone, the Oakland Hills fires, Los Alamos, and the summers of 2000 and 2001. Carle explores 100 years of controversy over prescribed burning--using fire as a tool--and fire suppression, using the voices of early advocates and today's proponents to examine the strategy of controlled burning.
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