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Autore: | Pyne Stephen J. <1949-> |
Titolo: | Florida : A Fire Survey / / Stephen J. Pyne |
Pubblicazione: | Tucson : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2016 |
Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2016 | |
©2016 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (184 p.) |
Disciplina: | 363.37/909759 |
Soggetto topico: | Forest fires - Florida - Prevention and control - History |
Wildfires - Florida - Prevention and control - History | |
Forest fires - Florida - History | |
Wildfires - Florida - History | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Greater Tallahassee -- Hearth: American fire's Silicon Valley -- After the revolution: Tall Timbers Research Station -- Into the open air: the National Interagency Prescribed Fire Training Center -- Our pappies are still burning the woods: the southern culture behind prescribed fire -- Not even past: Ichauway Plantation and the Jones Ecological Research Center -- The Florida Forest Service: Florida's fire fulcrum -- Interlude: the many reasons and singular reality of Florida fire -- Panhandle and peninsula -- The more things change: Eglin Air Force Base -- Regime change: St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge -- East is east, west is west: Deseret Ranches -- A tale of two landscapes: Myakka River State Park and Babcock-Webb Wildlife Management Area -- Foot in the black: the Nature Conservancy in Florida -- Fire 101 at Star Fleet Academy: Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge -- Under the dome: Big Cypress National Preserve -- The everburns: Everglades National Park -- Epilogue: Florida between two fires. |
Sommario/riassunto: | "The Tallahassee region became the ignition point for the fire revolution of the 1960s; today, it remains the Silicon Valley of prescription burning. How and why this happened is the topic of a fire reconnaissance that begins in the panhandle and follows Floridian fire south to the Everglades"-- |
Titolo autorizzato: | Florida |
ISBN: | 0-8165-3369-5 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910827867303321 |
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