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The Northern Rockies : A Fire Survey /

"The Northern Rockies is part of the multivolume series describing the nation's fire scene region by region. The volumes in To the Last Smoke also cover Florida, the Northern Rockies, the Great Plains, the Southwest, and several other critical fire regions"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: where the mountains roar
  • Portal: Lolo Pass
  • The Missoula matrix
  • Why Boise is not the national center of interagency fire
  • The paradoxes of wilderness fire
  • Fire's call of the wild
  • Fire by parallax
  • The embers will find a way
  • Portal: gates of the mountains
  • Young men, old men, and fire
  • How I came to Mann Gulch
  • What makes a fire significant?
  • The big blowup
  • The second big blowup
  • The other big burn
  • Epilogue: the Northern Rockies between two fires.