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Autore: | Barker Rocky |
Titolo: | Scorched earth : how the fires of Yellowstone changed America / / Rocky Barker |
Pubblicazione: | Washington : , : Island Press, , 2005 |
©2005 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (277 pages) : map |
Disciplina: | 634.9/618/0978752 |
Soggetto topico: | Forest fires - Yellowstone National Park - Prevention and control |
Forest fires - Government policy - Yellowstone National Park | |
Fire ecology - Yellowstone National Park | |
Environmental policy - United States | |
Soggetto geografico: | Yellowstone National Park |
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"" | |
Titolo autorizzato: | Scorched earth |
ISBN: | 1-4294-9528-6 |
1-59726-625-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910778820903321 |
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