Blaze and the Forest Fire: Billy and Blaze Spread the Alarm
Paperback – April 30, 1992
Paperback – April 30, 1992
Blazing Forest Trails
Blazing Heritage: A History of Wildland Fire in the National Parks
by Hal K. Rothman (Author)
National parks played a unique role in the development of wildfire management on American public lands. With a different mission and powerful meaning to the public, the national parks were a psychic battleground for the contests between fire suppression and its use as a management tool. Blazing Heritage tells how the national parks shaped federal fire management.by Hal K. Rothman (Author)
National parks played a unique role in the development of wildfire management on American public lands. With a different mission and powerful meaning to the public, the national parks were a psychic battleground for the contests between fire suppression and its use as a management tool. Blazing Heritage tells how the national parks shaped federal fire management.
Blue Ridge Fire Towers (Landmarks)
Paperback – April 6, 2015
by Robert Sorrell (Author)
Fire lookout towers have graced the highest peaks in the Blue Ridge Mountains for more than a century. Early mountaineers and conservationists began constructing lookouts during the late 1800s. By the 1930s, states and the federal government had built thousands of towers around the country, many in the Blue Ridge. While technology allowed forestry services to use other means for early detection of fires, many towers still stand as a testament to their significance. Author Robert Sorrell details the fascinating history of the lookouts in the Blue Ridge's forests
Paperback – April 6, 2015
by Robert Sorrell (Author)
Fire lookout towers have graced the highest peaks in the Blue Ridge Mountains for more than a century. Early mountaineers and conservationists began constructing lookouts during the late 1800s. By the 1930s, states and the federal government had built thousands of towers around the country, many in the Blue Ridge. While technology allowed forestry services to use other means for early detection of fires, many towers still stand as a testament to their significance. Author Robert Sorrell details the fascinating history of the lookouts in the Blue Ridge's forests
Blue Ridge Summer
Mass Market Paperback – September 1, 1984
by Margaret Paice (Author)
Mass Market Paperback – September 1, 1984
by Margaret Paice (Author)
Bone Canyon (Eve Ronin Book 2)
Kindle Edition
by Lee Goldberg (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
Kindle Edition
by Lee Goldberg (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California's Wildfires
Bring On the Dusk
Kindle Edition
by M. L. Buchman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
Kindle Edition
by M. L. Buchman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
British Columbia in Flames: Stories from a Blazing Summer
Paperback – October 13, 2020
by Claudia Cornwall (Author)
Like many British Columbians in 2017, Claudia Cornwall found herself glued to the news about the disastrous wildfires across the province. Her worry was personal: her cabin at Sheridan Lake had been in the family for sixty years and was now in danger of destruction. Cornwall, a long-time writer, was stricken not just by her own experience, but by the many moving stories she came across about the fires―so she began collecting them. She met with people from the communities of Sheridan Lake, Ashcroft, Cache Creek, 16 Mile House, Lac La Hache, Quesnel, Williams Lake, Hanceville-Riske Creek and Clinton. She hoped to be a conduit for the voices she heard―for those who fought the fires raging around them, those who were evacuated and displaced, and those who could do nothing but watch as their homes burned. She conducted over fifty hours of interviews with ranchers, cottagers, Indigenous residents, RCMP officers, evacuees, store and resort owners, search and rescue volunteers, firefighters and local government officials. Presented in British Columbia in Flames are stories that illustrate the importance of community. During the 2017 wildfires, people looked after strangers who had no place to go. They shared information. They helped each other rescue and shelter animals. They kept stores open day and night to supply gas, food and comfort to evacuees. This memoir, at once journalistic and deeply personal, highlights the strength with which BC communities can and will come together to face a terrifying force of nature.Paperback – October 13, 2020
by Claudia Cornwall (Author)
Like many British Columbians in 2017, Claudia Cornwall found herself glued to the news about the disastrous wildfires across the province. Her worry was personal: her cabin at Sheridan Lake had been in the family for sixty years and was now in danger of destruction. Cornwall, a long-time writer, was stricken not just by her own experience, but by the many moving stories she came across about the fires―so she began collecting them. She met with people from the communities of Sheridan Lake, Ashcroft, Cache Creek, 16 Mile House, Lac La Hache, Quesnel, Williams Lake, Hanceville-Riske Creek and Clinton. She hoped to be a conduit for the voices she heard―for those who fought the fires raging around them, those who were evacuated and displaced, and those who could do nothing but watch as their homes burned. She conducted over fifty hours of interviews with ranchers, cottagers, Indigenous residents, RCMP officers, evacuees, store and resort owners, search and rescue volunteers, firefighters and local government officials. Presented in British Columbia in Flames are stories that illustrate the importance of community. During the 2017 wildfires, people looked after strangers who had no place to go. They shared information. They helped each other rescue and shelter animals. They kept stores open day and night to supply gas, food and comfort to evacuees. This memoir, at once journalistic and deeply personal, highlights the strength with which BC communities can and will come together to face a terrifying force of nature.
Burn Scars: A Memoir of the Land and Its Loss
Paperback – March 12, 2020
by Patricia Prijatel (Author)
A tiny cabin in a remote Colorado mountain valley. Off the grid, built by hand by the family who lives there, in a land that’s silent, wild, and beautiful—until June 2013 and the East Peak Fire. The cabin survived, but the woodlands became a burn-scarred landscape of splintered trunks and blackened branches. This is the story of how author Patricia Prijatel and her family and neighbors escaped the fire. More important, it's about what came after, as the ruin of the land and its people grew: flash floods on eroded land, invasive weeds crowding out grass and seedlings, hurricane-level winds breaking healthy trees, dangerous orphaned animals, toxic air, and stress leading to life-threatening diseases.Burns Scars is about a love of the land, of hope challenging despair, of grief, and resilience. With searing honesty, Prijatel chronicles life on her 35 acres of paradise and ties it to an unprecedented transition for America's natural forests, the life they nurture, and the people witnessing their tragic loss. Her story serves as a love song, a warning, and a glimpse of the future as wildfires remake the places we've loved.
Paperback – March 12, 2020
by Patricia Prijatel (Author)
A tiny cabin in a remote Colorado mountain valley. Off the grid, built by hand by the family who lives there, in a land that’s silent, wild, and beautiful—until June 2013 and the East Peak Fire. The cabin survived, but the woodlands became a burn-scarred landscape of splintered trunks and blackened branches. This is the story of how author Patricia Prijatel and her family and neighbors escaped the fire. More important, it's about what came after, as the ruin of the land and its people grew: flash floods on eroded land, invasive weeds crowding out grass and seedlings, hurricane-level winds breaking healthy trees, dangerous orphaned animals, toxic air, and stress leading to life-threatening diseases.Burns Scars is about a love of the land, of hope challenging despair, of grief, and resilience. With searing honesty, Prijatel chronicles life on her 35 acres of paradise and ties it to an unprecedented transition for America's natural forests, the life they nurture, and the people witnessing their tragic loss. Her story serves as a love song, a warning, and a glimpse of the future as wildfires remake the places we've loved.
Burn to Black
Paperback – July 8, 2003
by Michael Kurtz (Author)
Wildfires burn faster uphilla fact not lost on Jackson Ansley as he carries on his back the injured women he loves, trying to outrun a deadly blaze to the top of a ridge. All bets are off as they stake their lives on a lone butterfly guiding them through the smoke and the unspoken understanding that their crew members will leave no one behind. Spirit animals, vision quests and mystical crystals find a way of mixing into a world of chewing tobacco, beer and red meat as this story unfolds into a magical tale of love, friendship and fire. Burn to Black is a powerful literary journey with colorful characters and poignant humor told through eyes of a newly promoted crew boss as he overcomes a tragic past and a recent deadly betrayalonly to rediscover what is truly important in his life
Paperback – July 8, 2003
by Michael Kurtz (Author)
Wildfires burn faster uphilla fact not lost on Jackson Ansley as he carries on his back the injured women he loves, trying to outrun a deadly blaze to the top of a ridge. All bets are off as they stake their lives on a lone butterfly guiding them through the smoke and the unspoken understanding that their crew members will leave no one behind. Spirit animals, vision quests and mystical crystals find a way of mixing into a world of chewing tobacco, beer and red meat as this story unfolds into a magical tale of love, friendship and fire. Burn to Black is a powerful literary journey with colorful characters and poignant humor told through eyes of a newly promoted crew boss as he overcomes a tragic past and a recent deadly betrayalonly to rediscover what is truly important in his life
Burn: The Epic Story of Bushfire in Australia
Hardcover – January 1, 2006
by Paul Collins (Author)
Hardcover – January 1, 2006
by Paul Collins (Author)
Burning Planet: The Story of Fire Through Time
Illustrated Edition, Kindle Edition
by Andrew C. Scott (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
Raging wildfires have devastated vast areas of California and Australia in recent years, and predictions are that we will see more of the same in coming years, as a result of climate change. But this is nothing new. Since the dawn of life on land, large-scale fires have played their part in shaping life on Earth. Andrew Scott tells the whole story of fire's impact on our planet's atmosphere, climate, vegetation, ecology, and the evolution of plant and animal life. It has caused mass extinctions, and it has propelled the spread of flowering plants. The exciting evidence we can now draw on has been preserved in fossilized charcoal, found in rocks hundreds of millions of years old, from all over the world. These reveal incredibly fine details of prehistoric plants, and tell us about climates from deep in earth's history. They also give us insight into how early hominids and humans tamed fire and used it. Looking at the impact of wildfires in our own time, Scott also looks forward to how we might better manage them in future, as climate change has an increasing effect on our world.
Illustrated Edition, Kindle Edition
by Andrew C. Scott (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
Raging wildfires have devastated vast areas of California and Australia in recent years, and predictions are that we will see more of the same in coming years, as a result of climate change. But this is nothing new. Since the dawn of life on land, large-scale fires have played their part in shaping life on Earth. Andrew Scott tells the whole story of fire's impact on our planet's atmosphere, climate, vegetation, ecology, and the evolution of plant and animal life. It has caused mass extinctions, and it has propelled the spread of flowering plants. The exciting evidence we can now draw on has been preserved in fossilized charcoal, found in rocks hundreds of millions of years old, from all over the world. These reveal incredibly fine details of prehistoric plants, and tell us about climates from deep in earth's history. They also give us insight into how early hominids and humans tamed fire and used it. Looking at the impact of wildfires in our own time, Scott also looks forward to how we might better manage them in future, as climate change has an increasing effect on our world.
Burning Questions: A Social Science Research Plan for Federal Wildland Fire Management
Paperback – January 1, 2002
by Gary E. Machlis(Author), Amanda B. Kaplan(Author), Seth P. Tuler(Author), Kathleen A. Bagby(Author), Jean E. McKendry(Author)
Paperback – January 1, 2002
by Gary E. Machlis(Author), Amanda B. Kaplan(Author), Seth P. Tuler(Author), Kathleen A. Bagby(Author), Jean E. McKendry(Author)
Burning Questions: A Social Science Research Plan for Federal Wildland Fire Management
Burning Questions: A Social Science Research Plan for Federal Wildlife Fire Management
by Don ArtleyBurning Questions: A Social Science Research Plan for Federal Wildlife Fire Management
by Don Artley
Burning Questions: America's Fight with Nature's Fire
Burning Table Mountain: An Environmental History of Fire on the Cape Peninsula (Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History)
2014th Edition
by S. Pooley(Author)
Cape Town's iconic Table Mountain and the surrounding peninsula has been a crucible for attempts to integrate the social and ecological dimensions of wild fire. This environmental history of humans and wildfire outlines these interactions from the practices of Khoikhoi herders to the conflagrations of January 2000. The region's unique, famously diverse fynbos vegetation has been transformed since European colonial settlement, through urbanisation and biological modifications, both intentional (forestry) and unintentional (biological invasions). In all the diverse visions people have formed for Table Mountain, aesthetic and utilitarian, fire has been regarded as a central problem. This book shows how scientific understandings of fire in fynbos developed slowly in the face of strong prejudices. Human impacts were intensified in the twentieth century, which provides the temporal focus for the book. The disjunctures between popular perception, expert knowledge, policy and management are explored, and the book supplements existing short-term scientific data with proxies on fire incidence trends recovered from historical records.
2014th Edition
by S. Pooley(Author)
Cape Town's iconic Table Mountain and the surrounding peninsula has been a crucible for attempts to integrate the social and ecological dimensions of wild fire. This environmental history of humans and wildfire outlines these interactions from the practices of Khoikhoi herders to the conflagrations of January 2000. The region's unique, famously diverse fynbos vegetation has been transformed since European colonial settlement, through urbanisation and biological modifications, both intentional (forestry) and unintentional (biological invasions). In all the diverse visions people have formed for Table Mountain, aesthetic and utilitarian, fire has been regarded as a central problem. This book shows how scientific understandings of fire in fynbos developed slowly in the face of strong prejudices. Human impacts were intensified in the twentieth century, which provides the temporal focus for the book. The disjunctures between popular perception, expert knowledge, policy and management are explored, and the book supplements existing short-term scientific data with proxies on fire incidence trends recovered from historical records.
Burning Up (Smoke Jumpers Book 1)
Kindle Edition
by Anne Marsh (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
It takes a special kind of hero to be a smoke jumper. To take the greatest risks. To live or die in the raging heat of the moment. And it takes a special kind of woman to love him. . .
Where There's Smoke. . . For Jack Donovan, smoke jumping is a way of life. He lives for the adrenaline rush--the thrill of flying over the burning California hills, the intensity of diving straight into the inferno, the glory of taming the forces of nature. Love is a distant ember compared to the feeling he gets fighting fires--until an emergency call from his hometown brings him face to face with the one woman he can't forget. . . There's Fire Lily never got over the handsome rogue who once kissed her senseless--and then left. She vowed she was done with love-'em-and-leave-'em men and small town life. Until a series of malicious fires set by a stalker has her running home to hide. Now, their summer is heating up as Jack fights to save her from the stalker's fiery threats and to convince her to give the passion between them a second chance. "White hot suspense and a drop dead sexy hero!" --New York Times bestselling author Roxanne St. Claire Anne Marsh's novels are: "Smoking hot." --Fiction Vixen "Sexually charged." --Bookaholics "Superb." --Midwest Book ReviewKindle Edition
by Anne Marsh (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
It takes a special kind of hero to be a smoke jumper. To take the greatest risks. To live or die in the raging heat of the moment. And it takes a special kind of woman to love him. . .
Where There's Smoke. . . For Jack Donovan, smoke jumping is a way of life. He lives for the adrenaline rush--the thrill of flying over the burning California hills, the intensity of diving straight into the inferno, the glory of taming the forces of nature. Love is a distant ember compared to the feeling he gets fighting fires--until an emergency call from his hometown brings him face to face with the one woman he can't forget. . . There's Fire Lily never got over the handsome rogue who once kissed her senseless--and then left. She vowed she was done with love-'em-and-leave-'em men and small town life. Until a series of malicious fires set by a stalker has her running home to hide. Now, their summer is heating up as Jack fights to save her from the stalker's fiery threats and to convince her to give the passion between them a second chance. "White hot suspense and a drop dead sexy hero!" --New York Times bestselling author Roxanne St. Claire Anne Marsh's novels are: "Smoking hot." --Fiction Vixen "Sexually charged." --Bookaholics "Superb." --Midwest Book Review
Burns So Bad (Smoke Jumpers Book 3)
Kindle Edition
by Anne Marsh (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
Discover New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Anne Marsh’s sexy Smoke Jumpers series! ONE JUMP PUTS IT ALL ON THE LINE… Former SEAL Rio Donovan is one hundred percent pure, sensual trouble. Home from the front lines, he has a new mission: fighting fire as a smoke jumper. He won't back down from the flames or a dare and he loves putting it all on the line when he parachutes into the heart of a wildland fire. When the fire camp gets a much-needed new player, however, Rio lands in uncharted territory. The jump team’s newest member is sexy, strong—and female. She’s supposed to be just one of the boys, but Rio burns to claim her one heated kiss at a time. This jump, Rio Donovan’s putting it all on the line. Body and heart. INTO THE FIRE… AND INTO LOVE Kissing a fellow smoke jumper would be career suicide and Gia Jackson has worked too hard and too long to earn her spot on the jump team to jeopardize it all now for a man. The love-em-and-leave-em boys of summer aren’t her type and she’s hiding a few secrets of her own, but, when her chute tangles with Rio’s on a jump, he’s thrown into her arms. Literally. She’s held firm on the fireline for years—but can she hold the line now against Rio’s seductive charm?
Kindle Edition
by Anne Marsh (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
Discover New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Anne Marsh’s sexy Smoke Jumpers series! ONE JUMP PUTS IT ALL ON THE LINE… Former SEAL Rio Donovan is one hundred percent pure, sensual trouble. Home from the front lines, he has a new mission: fighting fire as a smoke jumper. He won't back down from the flames or a dare and he loves putting it all on the line when he parachutes into the heart of a wildland fire. When the fire camp gets a much-needed new player, however, Rio lands in uncharted territory. The jump team’s newest member is sexy, strong—and female. She’s supposed to be just one of the boys, but Rio burns to claim her one heated kiss at a time. This jump, Rio Donovan’s putting it all on the line. Body and heart. INTO THE FIRE… AND INTO LOVE Kissing a fellow smoke jumper would be career suicide and Gia Jackson has worked too hard and too long to earn her spot on the jump team to jeopardize it all now for a man. The love-em-and-leave-em boys of summer aren’t her type and she’s hiding a few secrets of her own, but, when her chute tangles with Rio’s on a jump, he’s thrown into her arms. Literally. She’s held firm on the fireline for years—but can she hold the line now against Rio’s seductive charm?
Bushfire
Paperback – June 23, 2013
by PAUL ANTHONY (Author)
'Bushfire' is a terrifying thriller of greed and deceit. The action spans the oceans, from Colombia to the British Isles and is set against the inferno of a raging drugs' culture. Cumbrian undercover detective Boyd, and the covert power of the State, battle against globally organised crime syndicates unaware that some amongst them have different plans: Private and personal revenge... A gripping tale from Paul Anthony. Paul Anthony is the pseudonym of a policeman. As a detective, he served with Cumbria CID, the Regional Crime Squad in Manchester, the Special Branch, and other national agencies in the UK
Paperback – June 23, 2013
by PAUL ANTHONY (Author)
'Bushfire' is a terrifying thriller of greed and deceit. The action spans the oceans, from Colombia to the British Isles and is set against the inferno of a raging drugs' culture. Cumbrian undercover detective Boyd, and the covert power of the State, battle against globally organised crime syndicates unaware that some amongst them have different plans: Private and personal revenge... A gripping tale from Paul Anthony. Paul Anthony is the pseudonym of a policeman. As a detective, he served with Cumbria CID, the Regional Crime Squad in Manchester, the Special Branch, and other national agencies in the UK
Bushfire Bride
Hardcover – Large Print, March 14, 2005
by Marion Lennox (Author)
Dr. Rachel Harper just wanted to get away for a weekend. Now she's stranded in the Outback, working with doctor Hugo McInnes. Their attraction is soon raging as strongly as the bushfires around town. As the firestorm closes in on Cowral Bay, the heat between them is burning out of control . .
Hardcover – Large Print, March 14, 2005
by Marion Lennox (Author)
Dr. Rachel Harper just wanted to get away for a weekend. Now she's stranded in the Outback, working with doctor Hugo McInnes. Their attraction is soon raging as strongly as the bushfires around town. As the firestorm closes in on Cowral Bay, the heat between them is burning out of control . .
Bushfire disaster: An Australian community in crisis
(Studies in Australian society) Paperback – January 1, 1975
by Roger Lewellyn Wettenhall (Author)
(Studies in Australian society) Paperback – January 1, 1975
by Roger Lewellyn Wettenhall (Author)
Bushfire Moon: An Australian Christmas Story
Paperback – December 4, 2014
by Jeff Peck (Author)
In Australia, Christmas comes in the middle of the summer—and this is the hottest one anyone can remember. The O’Day family’s sheep farm is ravaged by drought and wildfires and it looks like a year without presents for eight-year-old Ned and 16-year-old Sarah. That is, until Ned catches sight of an old man with a long, white beard! Based on a popular feature film that has become a holiday classic, this is the heartwarming story of a family overcoming the worst of odds—and a little boy’s dreams that bring a whole community together in the true spirit of Christmas
Paperback – December 4, 2014
by Jeff Peck (Author)
In Australia, Christmas comes in the middle of the summer—and this is the hottest one anyone can remember. The O’Day family’s sheep farm is ravaged by drought and wildfires and it looks like a year without presents for eight-year-old Ned and 16-year-old Sarah. That is, until Ned catches sight of an old man with a long, white beard! Based on a popular feature film that has become a holiday classic, this is the heartwarming story of a family overcoming the worst of odds—and a little boy’s dreams that bring a whole community together in the true spirit of Christmas
Bushfire Rescue (Extreme Adventures #2 )
Bushfire!: A Bindi Irwin Adventure (Bindi's Wildlife Adventures, 3)
Paperback – June 1, 2011
by Bindi Irwin (Author), Jess Black (Author)
While on an early morning bushwalk, Bindi and her best friend, Rosie, notice smoke on the horizon. It's a bushfire! As the girls watch, hot winds fan the flames, spreading the fire across the national park. The girls rush to volunteer at the Australian Wildlife Hospital caring for victims of the fire. Can they save a mama koala and her baby joey?
Paperback – June 1, 2011
by Bindi Irwin (Author), Jess Black (Author)
While on an early morning bushwalk, Bindi and her best friend, Rosie, notice smoke on the horizon. It's a bushfire! As the girls watch, hot winds fan the flames, spreading the fire across the national park. The girls rush to volunteer at the Australian Wildlife Hospital caring for victims of the fire. Can they save a mama koala and her baby joey?
Bushfires
Bushfires and Bushtucker: Aboriginal Plant Use in Central Australia
Paperback – January 1, 1996
by Peter Latz (Author)
Paperback – January 1, 1996
by Peter Latz (Author)
By Jack Pinkowski - Disaster Management Handbook
2nd (second) Edition Hardcover – February 6, 2008
2nd (second) Edition Hardcover – February 6, 2008
California Fire and Life: A Suspense Thriller (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Paperback – September 4, 2007
by Don Winslow (Author)
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CARTEL. When Jack Wade is called in to examine a suspicious arson claim, he follows the evidence into the crime infested inferno of the California underworld. Jack Wade was the rising star of the Orange County Sheriffs Department’s arson unit, but a minor scandal cost him everything, except his encyclopedic knowledge of fire. Now working as an insurance claims investigator, Jack is called in to examine a suspicious claim: within hours of a disastrous blaze tearing through a wing of real estate mogul Nicky Vale’s house— causing the horrific death of his young wife—he filed a 3 million-dollar insurance claim. The tracks of the fire tell Jack that something's wrong, and as he follows the evidence the case grows to involve the Russian mob, Vietnamese gangs, real estate scams, counterfeiting and corporate corruption. Things get so hot and deadly that Jack might not make it out alive . . . that is until he decides to fight fire with fire.
Paperback – September 4, 2007
by Don Winslow (Author)
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CARTEL. When Jack Wade is called in to examine a suspicious arson claim, he follows the evidence into the crime infested inferno of the California underworld. Jack Wade was the rising star of the Orange County Sheriffs Department’s arson unit, but a minor scandal cost him everything, except his encyclopedic knowledge of fire. Now working as an insurance claims investigator, Jack is called in to examine a suspicious claim: within hours of a disastrous blaze tearing through a wing of real estate mogul Nicky Vale’s house— causing the horrific death of his young wife—he filed a 3 million-dollar insurance claim. The tracks of the fire tell Jack that something's wrong, and as he follows the evidence the case grows to involve the Russian mob, Vietnamese gangs, real estate scams, counterfeiting and corporate corruption. Things get so hot and deadly that Jack might not make it out alive . . . that is until he decides to fight fire with fire.
California Indians and Their Environment: An Introduction (Volume 96) (California Natural History Guides)
First Edition
by Kent Lightfoot (Author), Otis Parrish (Author)
Capturing the vitality of California's unique indigenous cultures, this major new introduction incorporates the extensive research of the past thirty years into an illuminating, comprehensive synthesis for a wide audience. Based in part on new archaeological findings, it tells how the California Indians lived in vibrant polities, each boasting a rich village life including chiefs, religious specialists, master craftspeople, dances, feasts, and ceremonies. Throughout, the book emphasizes how these diverse communities interacted with the state's varied landscape, enhancing its
First Edition
by Kent Lightfoot (Author), Otis Parrish (Author)
Capturing the vitality of California's unique indigenous cultures, this major new introduction incorporates the extensive research of the past thirty years into an illuminating, comprehensive synthesis for a wide audience. Based in part on new archaeological findings, it tells how the California Indians lived in vibrant polities, each boasting a rich village life including chiefs, religious specialists, master craftspeople, dances, feasts, and ceremonies. Throughout, the book emphasizes how these diverse communities interacted with the state's varied landscape, enhancing its
California: A Fire Survey (To the Last Smoke)
Paperback – March 31, 2016
by Stephen J. Pyne (Author)
The coastal sage and shrublands of California burn. The mountain-encrusting chaparral burns. The conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada, Cascades, and Trinity Alps burn. The rain-shadowed deserts after watering by El Niño cloudbursts and the thick forests of the rumpled Coast Range—all burn according to local rhythms of wetting and drying. Fire season, so the saying goes, lasts 13 months. In this collection of essays on the region, Stephen J. Pyne colorfully explores the ways the region has approached fire management and what sets it apart from other parts of the country. Pyne writes that what makes California’s fire scene unique is how its dramatically distinctive biomes have been yoked to a common system, ultimately committed to suppression, and how its fires burn with a character and on a scale commensurate with the state’s size and political power. California has not only a ferocity of flame but a cultural intensity that few places can match. California’s fires are instantly and hugely broadcast. They shape national institutions, and they have repeatedly defined the discourse of fire’s history. No other place has so sculpted the American way of fire.Paperback – March 31, 2016
by Stephen J. Pyne (Author)
The coastal sage and shrublands of California burn. The mountain-encrusting chaparral burns. The conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada, Cascades, and Trinity Alps burn. The rain-shadowed deserts after watering by El Niño cloudbursts and the thick forests of the rumpled Coast Range—all burn according to local rhythms of wetting and drying. Fire season, so the saying goes, lasts 13 months. In this collection of essays on the region, Stephen J. Pyne colorfully explores the ways the region has approached fire management and what sets it apart from other parts of the country. Pyne writes that what makes California’s fire scene unique is how its dramatically distinctive biomes have been yoked to a common system, ultimately committed to suppression, and how its fires burn with a character and on a scale commensurate with the state’s size and political power. California has not only a ferocity of flame but a cultural intensity that few places can match. California’s fires are instantly and hugely broadcast. They shape national institutions, and they have repeatedly defined the discourse of fire’s history. No other place has so sculpted the American way of fire.
Campbell prediction system Rx: CPS applied to prescription (Rx) burns
Unknown Binding – January 1, 1993
by Doug Campbell (Author)
Unknown Binding – January 1, 1993
by Doug Campbell (Author)
Capstone Ridge
Original Edition
by Mr. Roger W. Avrit (Author)
Ex-paratrooper Craig Swan is given a second chance to become one of the elite Smokejumper wildfire fighters. After an accelerated training program, he is introduced to his team and prepared to make a jump into the fight against the massive and remote Capstone Ridge fire.Preparing for a hazardous parachute jump with all the needed supplies and equipment is no small undertaking that leaves no room for error. These are superbly trained professionals, though, and they are ready to meet the challenges.All goes well until the landing after the jump when things immediately start going wrong. Working under severe handicaps, the crew struggles to build a fire line to stop the oncoming fire with time running out as it draws closer. How the crew prevailed to become legends is told in this gripping and terrifying story of courage, discipline and determination in the face of overw
Original Edition
by Mr. Roger W. Avrit (Author)
Ex-paratrooper Craig Swan is given a second chance to become one of the elite Smokejumper wildfire fighters. After an accelerated training program, he is introduced to his team and prepared to make a jump into the fight against the massive and remote Capstone Ridge fire.Preparing for a hazardous parachute jump with all the needed supplies and equipment is no small undertaking that leaves no room for error. These are superbly trained professionals, though, and they are ready to meet the challenges.All goes well until the landing after the jump when things immediately start going wrong. Working under severe handicaps, the crew struggles to build a fire line to stop the oncoming fire with time running out as it draws closer. How the crew prevailed to become legends is told in this gripping and terrifying story of courage, discipline and determination in the face of overw
Carbon Accounting and Savanna Fire Management
Carbon Sinks and Climate Change: Forests in the Fight Against Global Warming (Advances in Ecological Economics)
Cascade of Flames by Mary Ellen Goulet
(2010-11-25) Paperback – January 1, 1678
by Mary Ellen Goulet (Author)
(2010-11-25) Paperback – January 1, 1678
by Mary Ellen Goulet (Author)
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Paperback – September 7, 2010
by Richard Wrangham(Author)
Ever since Darwin and The Descent of Man, the evolution and world-wide dispersal of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability. But in Catching Fire, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham presents a startling alternative: our evolutionary success is the result of cooking. In a groundbreaking theory of our origins, Wrangham shows that the shift from raw to cooked foods was the key factor in human evolution. Once our hominid ancestors began cooking their food, the human digestive tract shrank and the brain grew. Time once spent chewing tough raw food could be sued instead to hunt and to tend camp. Cooking became the basis for pair bonding and marriage, created the household, and even led to a sexual division of labor. In short, once our ancestors adapted to using fire, humanity began. Tracing the contemporary implications of our ancestors' diets, Catching Fire sheds new light on how we came to be the social, intelligent, and sexual species we are today. A pathbreaking new theory of human evolution, Catching Fire will provoke controversy and fascinate anyone interested in our ancient origins-or in our modern eating habits.
Paperback – September 7, 2010
by Richard Wrangham(Author)
Ever since Darwin and The Descent of Man, the evolution and world-wide dispersal of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability. But in Catching Fire, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham presents a startling alternative: our evolutionary success is the result of cooking. In a groundbreaking theory of our origins, Wrangham shows that the shift from raw to cooked foods was the key factor in human evolution. Once our hominid ancestors began cooking their food, the human digestive tract shrank and the brain grew. Time once spent chewing tough raw food could be sued instead to hunt and to tend camp. Cooking became the basis for pair bonding and marriage, created the household, and even led to a sexual division of labor. In short, once our ancestors adapted to using fire, humanity began. Tracing the contemporary implications of our ancestors' diets, Catching Fire sheds new light on how we came to be the social, intelligent, and sexual species we are today. A pathbreaking new theory of human evolution, Catching Fire will provoke controversy and fascinate anyone interested in our ancient origins-or in our modern eating habits.
Cells, Molecules and Temperature: Conformational Flexibility of Macromolecules and Ecological Adaptation
by Vladimir Ya. Alexandrov (Author), V.A. Bernstam (Translator)
(Ecological Studies, 21) Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1977 EditionAfter the great achievements in the field of molecular foundations of genetics and protein synthesis, molecular biology undertook the successful deciphering of a number of other important biological problems. By this time ecology in its various branches was far enough advanced to tackle the problems arising at the level of molecular biology. The monograph of Professor Alexandrov, which takes as an example the adaptation of organisms to habitat temperatures, presents a vivid picture of this major ecological problem as viewed at the cellular and molecular levels. As main theme of the book the author advances a hypothesis on a correlation between the level of conformational flexibility of protein molecules and the temperature ecology of a species, as a result of which the protein molecules are maintained in a semilabile state. This principle may also be applied to other factors of the environment which affect the level of flexibility of protein macro molecules. The principle of semistability is shown to be applicable also to the nucleic and fatty acids.
by Vladimir Ya. Alexandrov (Author), V.A. Bernstam (Translator)
(Ecological Studies, 21) Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1977 EditionAfter the great achievements in the field of molecular foundations of genetics and protein synthesis, molecular biology undertook the successful deciphering of a number of other important biological problems. By this time ecology in its various branches was far enough advanced to tackle the problems arising at the level of molecular biology. The monograph of Professor Alexandrov, which takes as an example the adaptation of organisms to habitat temperatures, presents a vivid picture of this major ecological problem as viewed at the cellular and molecular levels. As main theme of the book the author advances a hypothesis on a correlation between the level of conformational flexibility of protein molecules and the temperature ecology of a species, as a result of which the protein molecules are maintained in a semilabile state. This principle may also be applied to other factors of the environment which affect the level of flexibility of protein macro molecules. The principle of semistability is shown to be applicable also to the nucleic and fatty acids.
Charcoal Forest, the: How Fire Helps Animals and Plants
Paperback – Illustrated, June 15, 2007
by Beth A. Peluso (Author)
After a fire, you might think a burned area is as barren and lifeless as the moon. But take a closer look and you'll find that even before the last wisps of smoke have cleared, the newly burned forest is already teeming with life. Many plants and animals find fertile ground here to grow, eat, and have offspring; some species are dependent on fire and cannot thrive to reproduce without it. Unlike most books, which concentrate on the fire itself, The Charcoal Forest explores the new habitat created by the fire. Focusing on the Northern Rocky Mountains of the United States and Canada, the book describes twenty species of animals and plants that contribute to the reclamation and renewal of the charcoal forest. Why do some beetles fly toward a fire? Why will you almost never see a black-backed woodpecker outside of burned areas? How do fires help grow yummy treats like huckleberries and morel mushrooms? Kids and adults will delight in discovering the answers to these and other burning questions-and don't forget to find the black-backed woodpecker in every picture!
Paperback – Illustrated, June 15, 2007
by Beth A. Peluso (Author)
After a fire, you might think a burned area is as barren and lifeless as the moon. But take a closer look and you'll find that even before the last wisps of smoke have cleared, the newly burned forest is already teeming with life. Many plants and animals find fertile ground here to grow, eat, and have offspring; some species are dependent on fire and cannot thrive to reproduce without it. Unlike most books, which concentrate on the fire itself, The Charcoal Forest explores the new habitat created by the fire. Focusing on the Northern Rocky Mountains of the United States and Canada, the book describes twenty species of animals and plants that contribute to the reclamation and renewal of the charcoal forest. Why do some beetles fly toward a fire? Why will you almost never see a black-backed woodpecker outside of burned areas? How do fires help grow yummy treats like huckleberries and morel mushrooms? Kids and adults will delight in discovering the answers to these and other burning questions-and don't forget to find the black-backed woodpecker in every picture!
Charlie Jiles and the Forest Fire
Paperback – October 30, 2014
Paperback – October 30, 2014