California: A Fire Survey

by Stephen J. Pyne

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 Ni o 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816532613
• ISBN13: 9780816532612
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"