Photographs, Index
350 pages
Publisher:
Island Press, USA
With more than 150 dramatic photographs, Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy covers the
topic of wildfire from ecological, economic, and social/political perspectives while also documenting
how past US forest policies have hindered natural processes, creating a tinderbox of problems that
we are faced with today.
More than 25 leading thinkers in the field of fire ecology provide in-depth analyses, critiques,
and compelling solutions for how we live with fire in our society. Using examples such as the epic
Yellowstone fires of 1988, the ever-present southern California fires, and the Northwest's Biscuit
Fire of 2002, the book examines the ecology of these landscapes and the policies and practices
that affected them and continue to affect them, such as fire suppression, prescribed burns, salvage
logging, and land-use planning. Overall, the book aims to promote the restoration of fire to the
landscape and to encourage its natural behaviour so it can resume its role as a major ecological
process.
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