Burning Questions: America's Fight with Nature's Fire

by David Carle

Book Overview

A burning mix of diesel fuel and gasoline drips from handheld canisters onto the ground. Slowly a line of fire begins to creep downhill. The flames are well behaved, almost hesitant. This is a backing fire, unlikely to attract media attention unless it escapes, like the disastrous Los Alamos Cerro Grande fire did in 2000. This book explores a century of controversy over prescribed burning--using fire as a tool--and fire suppression. For more than...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275973719
• ISBN13: 9780275973711
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"