Commentaries . . . Pyne on fire, and other matters
Between Two Fires
    Essays, mostly unpublished, on the recent fire scene that may be collected eventually into a book.  Many essays to be added in the future.
   
    Between Two Fires - America's bicoastal fire revolution,  between Florida and California and their allied landscapes
          The Red Prescribed Longleaf Cockaded Wiregrass Burning Refuge [pdf] - fire at Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge

    Southwest Suite - a survey of fire in contemporary Arizona
          Friendly Fire [pdf] - Wally Covington and the 2006 Warm fire

    Middle Ground - fire observations from the Midwest and philosophical center
          Missouri Compromise [pdf] - fire in the Missouri Ozarks
   
    Shock and Awe - big fires and bad fires
          Passing the Torch - a meditation on megafires, from Greece to Arizona (published in American Scholar)
          Spark and Sprawl: A World Tour [pdf] - thoughts on the wildland/urban interface (draft; final to be published in Forest History Today)
             Big Burns, Then and Now [pdf] - observations on global warming and fire; delivered at Assoc. of Fire Ecology Fire Congress, 2006.

    East of the Rain, West of the Wind - fire scenes and themes from the less well-known corners of the world
          Strabretsche Heide [pdf] - fire in a Netherlands heath preserve
          Untamed Art [pdf] - "Forest Fire" or "The Untamed Element," the most famous fire painting in the world  (draft; final to be published in
                                                       Forest History Today)
           
    Regime Change - rethinking fire and its fundamental concepts
          The Wrath of Kuhn: Meditations on Fire Philosophy [pdf] - Informal talk presented to Association of Fire Ecology evening meeting, November, 2006.
             Problems, Paradoxes, Paradigms: Triangulating Fire Research [pdf] - the three conceptualizations of fire (published in International Journal of
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On Fire

Unpublished essays and talks.  For published essays, see Essays

Two Fires:  Return of a Native [pdf] and  Coyote Brings Fire to the City, Again [pdf]
In March, 2006 the New York Times, curious about fires on Staten Island and Long Island,  solicited a contribution to its op/ed page.  I submitted two, the second building on the discovery of a coyote in Central Park.  Neither was accepted.  .

Where Australia Sees the Universe [pdf]
A short meditation about the Mount Stromlo observatory and the bushfire that smashed it.

The Legacy
A reconsideration of Ed Pulaski and the Big Blowup; a sequel to "The Source,"  delivered at Wallace, Idaho, June, 2004

Frozen Fire: Carolina's Intermix Ice Storm [pdf]
A comparison of fire and ice, or intermix disasters, east and west

On Other Matters

Journey to the Source; or, My Life at the End of the World [pdf]
Written, upon request, for a proposed anthology, Travelers' Tales - Antarctica - and then dropped without notice.

Seeking Newer Worlds: The Future of Exploration [pdf]
Revised version of the Sarton Memorial Lecture delivered at the AAAS, Denver, 2002

Explaining Myself [pdf]
An inquiry into literary principles of writing nonfiction, with my books as examples.

Brittlebush Valley
A fictional look at a place where the New West meets the Old amid a nature that ignores both.
Link to table of contents, and files.

Last updated: April, 2008