Flames in our forest
Subtitle: disaster or renewal?
By: Stephen F. Arno, Steven Allison-Bunnell.
Contributors: Allison-Bunnell, Steven.
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Forest fires -- Environmental aspects -- West (U.S.); Forests and forestry -- Fire management -- West (U.S.); Fire ecology -- West (U.S.)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-212) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: why learn about fire?; title: Mixed signals: a brief history of American perceptions of fire; title: Fire on the landscape: past, present, and future; title: Fire behavior: why and how fire burns; title: Nature's creative force: how fire shapes the forest; title: Different forests, different fires; title: Environmental impacts: fire's influence on soils, water, and air; title: Fire history: discovering effects of past fires in a forest; title: Fire-prone forests: can we adapt to them?; title: Restoring nature's creative force; title: Managing wildland fuels around homes; title: Lessons from nature: will we learn?