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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814418803321

Autore

Barker Rocky

Titolo

Scorched earth : how the fires of Yellowstone changed America / / Rocky Barker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, : Island Press, c2005

ISBN

1-4294-9528-6

1-59726-625-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 pages) : map

Disciplina

634.9/618/0978752

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-261) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""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""