S1E19 Fire's American Century
Context15 Okt 2020

S1E19 Fire's American Century

A brief survey of how the American wildland fire scene has evolved, beginning with the 1880 census map of forest fires to the present day. Topics will include the Big Blowup of 1910, the CCC, the cold war on fire, the fire revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, the mashup of institutions and policies that characterizes today’s scene, and the quickening of threats that is leading us into a new fire age.


Steve Pyne is an emeritus professor at Arizona State University, mostly a fire historian, and the author recently of Between Two Fires: A Fire History of Contemporary America, Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910, and To the Last Smoke, a 9-book series of regional fire surveys.

Between Two Fires: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/between-two-fires-stephen-j-pyne/1121747173?ean=9780816532148

The Northern Rockies: A Fire Survey, Vol. 3, To the Last Smoke: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-northern-rockies-stephen-j-pyne/1123744491?ean=9780816533510

Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/year-of-the-fire-stephen-j-pyne/1131076528?ean=9780878425440


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