01578nam a2200277Ia 4500 TVU_17366 210423s9999 xx 000 0 und d 1559635657 9781559635653 eng 363.379 P608 Pyne, Stephen J. Tending fire coping with America's wildland fires Stephen J. Pyne Washington, DC Island Press 2004 xvii, 238 p. ill., maps 24 cm The wildfires that spread across Southern California in the fall of 2003 were devastating in their scale-twenty-two deaths, thousands of homes destroyed and many more threatened, hundreds of thousands of acres burned. What had gone wrong? And why, after years of discussion of fire policy, are some of America's most spectacular conflagrations arising now, and often not in a remote wilderness but close to large settlements? That is the opening to a brilliant discussion of the politics of fire by one of the country's most knowledgeable writers on the subject, Stephen J. Pyne. Once a fire fighter himself (for fifteen seasons, on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon) and now a professor at Arizona State University, Pyne gives us for the first time a book-length discussion of fire policy, of how we have come to this pass, and where we might go from here Wildfires; Fire management; Wildfires; Fire management Stephen J. Pyne Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh