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Slopovers : fire surveys of the mid-American oak woodlands, Pacific Northwest, and Alaska /
America is not simply a federation of states but a confederation of regions. Some have always held national attention, some just for a time. Slopovers examines three regions that once dominated the national narrative and may now be returning to prominence. The Mid-American oak woodlands were the sce...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tucson :
The University of Arizona Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- To the last smoke ;
v. 8. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Series List; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Preface: To the Last Smoke; Preface to Volume 8; THE MID-AMERICAN OAK WOODLANDS: A FIRE SURVEY; Author's Note: Oak Woodlands; Prologue: East of the 100th Meridian; The Long Hunt; A Dark and Burning Ground; Unchanged Past: Stones River National Battlefield; Uncertain Future: Land Between the Lakes; Unsettled Present: Nature Conservation; Missouri Compromise; Epilogue: The Oak Woodlands Between Two Fires; Note on Sources; THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST: A FIRE SURVEY; Author's Note: Pacific Northwest; Prologue: Green on Black
- Fire and Axe: The First and Second Timber WarsGrace Under Fire: The Willamette Valley; Crossing the Klamath; Restoration Sings the Blues; An Ecological and Silvicultural Tool: Harold Weaver; Epilogue: The Pacific Northwest Between Two Fires; Note on Sources; ALASKA: A FIRE SURVEY; Author's Note: Alaska; Prologue: Last Frontier, Lost Frontier; The Alaskan Persuasion; Pyropolitics, Alaska Style; The Alaska Fire Service; Last Frontier of the U.S. Forest Service; Live-Fire Zone; Sparks of Imagination; In the Black; Kenai; North to the Future: Pleistocene to Pyrocene
- Epilogue: Alaska Between Two FiresNote on Sources; Notes; Index; Illustrations; About the Author