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_cMdBmJHUP
050 0 0 _aSD421.32.C2
_bC685 2016
082 0 0 _a363.3709794
_223
100 1 _aPyne, Stephen J.,
_d1949-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aCalifornia
_h[electronic resource] :
_ba fire survey /
_cStephen J. Pyne.
260 _aTucson :
_bThe University of Arizona Press,
_c2016.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (203 pages :)
_billustrations, maps ;
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aTo the last smoke / series by Stephen J. Pyne ;
_vvolume 2
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aPrologue: conflagrating California -- California's invented fire cultures -- State of emergency -- Cajon Pass: portal to southern California -- Forests: southern California's fire rectangle -- Parks: traversing the transverse -- Imperium in Imperio -- Mending firewalls -- Force majeure -- Airing differences -- Interlude: California split -- Arch rock: portal to northern California -- The Tahoe crucible -- Working fire -- The pastures of purgatory -- The big ones -- Vignettes of primitive America: the sierra parks -- Epilogue: California between two fires.
520 _a"By its size, fire intensity, and institutional responses, California has long shaped the national agenda for wildland fire. From its early days, California decided for fire suppression. How and why this happened is the subject of this fire reconnaissance of America's Golden State for fire"--Provided by publisher.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aForest fires
_zCalifornia
_xPrevention and control
_xHistory.
650 0 _aForest fires
_zCalifornia
_xHistory.
650 0 _aWildfires
_zCalifornia
_xPrevention and control
_xHistory.
650 0 _aWildfires
_zCalifornia
_xHistory.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/46208/
945 _aProject MUSE - UPCC 2016 Ecology and Evolution
945 _aProject MUSE - UPCC 2016 Complete
999 _c1678
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