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A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of the men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts together the scattered pieces...
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Narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire of August, 1910, and Teddy Roosevelt's pioneering conservation efforts that helped turn public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service with consequences felt in the fires of today.
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Quick response research report volume 151
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[2002]
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The results of this study indicate that the communities exemplified a significant level of resiliency during and after the firestorms. Lessons of practical and policy relevance regarding recovery in the wildland-urban interface are highlighted.
4) The Big Burn
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
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Three teenagers battle the flames of the Big Burn of 1910, one of the century's biggest wildfires.
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When lawyer Hunter Lee leaves the New York City rat race that made him rich but cost him his marriage, he sets out to build a new life in Fort Mason, Montana. His friend Paul Brule, a Fire Jumper, shows him the reality of vast tracts of forest reduced to ash in seconds by hundred-foot walls of flame. Hunter comes to suspect that this particualr rash of summer fires is anything but accidental and could be serving a more sinister purpose. -- from publisher...
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[2001]
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"1910 was America's millennial year of fire. That summer, American nature and American society collided with tectonic force as western wildfires scorched millions of acres, darkened skies in New England, and deposited soot on the ice of Greenland. Farms, mining camps, and rail towns cracked and burned. A survivor said that the towering flames raged with the sound of a thousand trains rushing over a thousand steel trestles. As one ranger put it, the...