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

Published Washington : Island Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (277 pages) : map Contents 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-261) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Forest fires -- Yellowstone National Park -- Prevention and control Forest fires -- Government policy -- Yellowstone National Park Fire ecology -- Yellowstone National Park Environmental policy -- United States TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Forestry. Environmental policy Fire ecology Forest fires -- Government policy Forest fires -- Prevention and control SUBJECT Yellowstone National Park. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91004695 Subject United States United States -- Yellowstone National Park Form Electronic book LC no. 2005017199 ISBN 9781429495288 1429495286 9781597266253 1597266256

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