Blazing Heritage A History of Wildland Fire in the National Parks

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ISBN: 9780195311167 | 0195311167
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 4/12/2007

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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.

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Introduction: The National Parks and Fire	p. 3
Fighting Fire on Horseback: The Military in the National Parks, 1872-1916	p. 11
The Development of a Fire Management Structure	p. 33
A Decade of Transformation: The New Deal and Fire Policy	p. 53
Ecology and the Limits of Suppression in the Postwar Era	p. 75
Allowing Fire in the National Park System	p. 101
Managing Fire	p. 129
Yellowstone and the Politics of Disaster	p. 157
The Hazard of New Fortunes: Outlet, Cerro Grande, and the Twenty-First Century	p. 191
Notes	p. 207
Bibliography	p. 241
Index	p. 263
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Blazing Heritage A History of Wildland Fire in the National Parks

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