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

• Autore: Barker Rocky
• 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.: 9910814418803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II