Tending Fire : Coping with America's Wildland Fires

Synopsis

"Tending Fire offers an examination of fire that explores the "ancient alliance" between fire and humanity. Pyne recounts the history of ideas about fire during European expansion and the creation of fire-prone public lands, examines the effects caused by policies like "letting burn," suppressing, prescribing burns, or changing the landscape itself, and provides a long-overdue analysis of the current politics of fire."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved