The Northeast : A Fire Survey /

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"This book provides a thoughtful look at how the Northeast has experienced fire and the region's significance to the country's current wildfire-fighting efforts"--Provided by publisher

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Wildfires.
NATURE > General.
Feux de friches > États-Unis (Nord-Est) > Histoire.
Wildfires > Northeastern States > History.
Northeastern States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Dark Days
  • A Song of Ice and Fire
  • and Ice
  • Where the Past Is the Key to the Present
  • Fire's Keystone State
  • Bog and Burn: The New Jersey Pinelands
  • Fire on the Mountain
  • Albany Pine Bush
  • Where You Find It: Staten Island
  • The Forest as Garden: Charles Sprague Sargent
  • Pitch Pine and Least Tern
  • The WUI Within
  • The View from Bill Patterson's Study
  • Maine's Epicycles of Fire
  • Collective security: the Northeast Forest Fire protection Compact
  • Westward, the course of empire
  • Epilogue: The Northeast between two fires.

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