Tending Fire
Coping with America's Wildland Fires
 
 
 

Island Press, 2004
 
 

Prologue. Seeing Meaning in the Flames

Chapter One.  Why Fire
    Fire's Narrative
    An Imperial Narrative
    America's Narrative
    Rhythms and Reasons

Chapter Two. Torch and Shovel: The Means of Fire Management
    Option 1. Let Burn
    Option 2. Suppress
    Option 3. Prescribe Burn
    Option 4. Change Combustibility
    The Elements Compounded

Chapter Three. Sparks and Embers: Ideas in the Wind
    The Big Fire
    Firestop II and Firestart I
    Fire in the Mind
    Fire as Community

Chapter Four. Flash Points: Scenarios for the Future
    The Fires This Time, and Next
    The Not-Quite Vestal Fire on the No-Longer Virgin Lands
    The Big Burn

Epilogue. Imagining Fire

Appendix.  Fire's American Century: By the Numbers