The Wildfire Reader presents, in an affordable paperback edition, the essays included in Wildfire, offering a concise overview of fire landscapes and the past century of forest policy that has affected them.
Introduction
PART I. Wildfire Myths
PART II. Wildfire: Perspectives and Visions Introduction: Humans and Fire The Fire of Life: Thinking About the Biological Basis for Fire \ Stephen J. Pyne, Ph.D. A Spiral Dance: The Necessity of Fire to Wildness \ Mollie Matteson Fire and Native Peoples: A Natural or Humanized Landscape? \ Thomas R. Vale, Ph.D. Coyote Wildfire: Evolving Firefighters into Fire Guiders \ Joe Fox, Ph.D. Incendiary Language: How Words Affect Perception Hot News: Media Coverage of Wildfire \ Conrad Smith, Ph.D. Don't Get Hosed: How Political Framing Influences Fire Policy \ Les AuCoin Lifetimes with Fire: A Place in the Wildland Interface \ Gary Snyder
PART III. Fire Ecology: Stories and Studies Introduction: Fire-Adapted Landscapes The Yellowstone Fires of 1988: A Living Wilderness \ George Wuerthner Fire Ecology of the Sierra Nevada: Forests Born to Burn \ Jan W. van Wagtendonk Wildfire Management on a Human-Dominated Landscape: California Chaparral Wildfires \ Jon E. Keeley, PhD. and C. J. Fotheringham Fire in the Klamath-Siskiyou Ecoregion: Protecting and Restoring the Fire Mosaic \ Dominick A. DellaSala, Ph.D. Fire in the Southwest: A Historical Context \ Tom Ribe Fire in the East: Welcoming Back a Native Son \ George Wuerthner
PART IV. (Un)Healthy Forest Policy: Suppression, Salvage, and Scurrilous Solutions Introduction: Vested Interests as Purveyors of Forest Health Logging and Wildfire: Ecological Differences and the Need to Preserve Large Fires \ George Wuerthner After the Smoke Clears: Ecological Impacts of Salvage Logging \ James R. Strittholt, Ph.D. Conventional Salvage Logging: The Loss of Ecological Reason and Economic Restraint \ Chris Maser Pyro Cows: The Role of Livestock Grazing in Worsening Fire Severity \ George Wuerthner
PART V. The New Gravy Train: The Emergence of the Fire-Military-Industrial Complex Introduction: The Flawed Economics of Fire Suppression Avoiding a New “Conspiracy of Optimisma: The Economics of 224 Forest Fuel Reduction Strategies \ Thomas Michael Power, Ph.D. Money to Burn: Wildfire and the Budget \ Randal O'Toole The War on Wildfire: Firefighting and the Militarization of Forest Fire Management \ Timothy Ingalsbee, Ph.D.
PART VI. Eliminating the Smokescreen: Toward an Intelligent Fire Policy Introduction: Learning to Live with Fire-Dependent Ecosystems \ Timothy Ingalsbee, Ph.D. Keep the Greenfire Burning: Deep Ecology \ Crystal Stanionis and Dennis Glick Sprawling Into Disaster: The Growing Impact of Rural Residential Development on Wildland Fire Management in the Greater Yellowstone Area Burning Down the House: The Role of Disaster Aid in Subsidizing Catastrophe \ John Krist The Community Protection Zone: Defending Homes and Communities from the Threat of Forest Fire \ Brian Nowicki and Tod Schulke
PART VII. Time to Retire Smokey Bear Afterword The Ultimate Firefight: Changing Hearts and Minds \ Andy Kerr Smokey the Bear Sutra
A Glossary of Euphemisms and Spin A Glossary of Wildland Fire Terms Contributors Acknowledgments Notes Index
