Bibliograph

The Northeast, a fire survey, Stephen J. Pyne

Type

Label

The Northeast, a fire survey, Stephen J. Pyne

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Northeast

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1057377316

Responsibility statement

Stephen J. Pyne

Series statement

To the last smoke, volume 7

Sub title

a fire survey

Summary

"This book provides a thoughtful look at how the Northeast has experienced fire and the region's significance to the country's current wildfire-fighting efforts"--Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Prologue: Dark Days -- A Song of Ice and Fire -- and Ice -- Where the Past Is the Key to the Present -- Fire's Keystone State -- Bog and Burn: The New Jersey Pinelands -- Fire on the Mountain -- Albany Pine Bush -- Where You Find It: Staten Island -- The Forest as Garden: Charles Sprague Sargent -- Pitch Pine and Least Tern -- The WUI Within -- The View from Bill Patterson's Study -- Maine's Epicycles of Fire -- Collective security: the Northeast Forest Fire protection Compact -- Westward, the course of empire -- Epilogue: The Northeast between two fires

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