Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate

by Chad Hanson and Chad T. Hanson

Book Overview

Smokescreen cuts through years of misunderstanding and misdirection to make an impassioned, evidence-based argument for a new era of forest management for the sake of the planet and the human race. Natural fires are as essential as sun and rain in fire-adapted forests, but as humans encroach on wild spaces, fear, arrogance, and greed have shaped the way that people view these regenerative events and given rise to misinformation that threatens...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1985901862
• ISBN13: 9781985901865
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 280 Pages

Customer Reviews

Fighting Back Logging Myths with Science

It is a Herculean, formidable task to rebut decades upon decades of disinformation repeated day after day spouted by the eternally greedy Logging industry. Yet, if you still believe facts matter - Chad Hanson's book exposes myth after myth with actual research. He even gets one thing right that nearly every other "expert" gets wrong: He distinguishes "fire-adapted forests" from forests where fire is neither natural or essential such as Monterey pine (radiata) forests and so many others we are learning about when a more careful look is done. Kudos.