Fire in America

Fire in America
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.


Fire in America
Language: en
Pages: 681
Authors: Stephen J. Pyne
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-01-27 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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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 th
America Burning
Language: en
Pages: 204
Authors: United States. National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control
Categories: Fire extinction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989 - Publisher:

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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, inj
A Century of Wildland Fire Research
Language: en
Pages: 109
Authors: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-30 - Publisher: National Academies Press

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Although ecosystems, humans, and fire have coexisted for millennia, changes in geology, ecology, hydrology, and climate as well as sociocultural, regulatory, an
A Profile of Fire in the United States
Language: en
Pages: 22
Authors:
Categories: Fires
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher:

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Triangle
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: David Von Drehle
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Grove Press

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Describes the 1911 fire that destroyed the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village, the deaths of 146 workers in the fire, and the implicati