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Burning Questions: America's Fight with Nature's Fire
Burning Questions America's Fight with Nature's Fire Author:David Carle Fire suppression caused a surfeit of natural fuels in our forests, cumulating in the increasingly severe, uncontrollable fires of recent years: the fires in Yellowstone, the Oakland Hills fires, Los Alamos, and the summers of 2000 and 2001. Carle explores 100 years of controversy over prescribed burning--using fire as a tool--and fire suppressio... more »n, using the voices of early advocates and today's proponents to examine the strategy of controlled burning.« less