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UNINA9910814418803321 |
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Autore |
Barker Rocky |
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Titolo |
Scorched earth : how the fires of Yellowstone changed America / / Rocky Barker |
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Washington, : Island Press, c2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-4294-9528-6 |
1-59726-625-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (277 pages) : map |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Forest fires - Yellowstone National Park - Prevention and control |
Forest fires - Government policy - Yellowstone National Park |
Fire ecology - Yellowstone National Park |
Environmental policy - United States |
Yellowstone National Park |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-261) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Map: Yellowstone National Park""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyrights Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Prologue: September 7, 1988""; ""Ch. 1: The General""; ""Ch. 2: Jay Cooke, Nathaniel Langford, and the Northern Pacific""; ""Ch. 3: The Creation Myth""; ""Ch. 4: Yellowstone's Preservation Imperiled""; ""Ch. 5: The Calvary Rides to Preservation's Rescue""; ""Ch. 6: The Gospel of Fire""; ""Ch. 7: Fire and Rain""; ""Ch. 8: The Big Blowup""; ""Ch. 9: The End of the Trail""; ""Ch. 10: Green Fire""; ""Ch. 11: The Face of Conservation""; ""Ch. 12: The Natural Revolution"" |
""Ch. 13: Greater Yellowstone Rediscovered"" ""Ch. 14: Calm before the Storm""; ""Ch. 15: The Fires of Summer""; ""Ch. 16: Burn, Baby, Burn""; ""Ch. 17: Moment of Truth""; ""Ch. 18: From Old Faithful to Los Alamos""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Index"" |
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