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Fire management involves protecting natural resources from fire but also using controlled burning for land management purposes. Who are the stewards of land management and the researchers who devote their entire careers studying fire? How are ecosystems restored after major fires? What are the economic ramifications and what assessment tools are available? Forest Fires: A Reference Handbook explores the historical, ecological, economic, and social...

Pre-incident information gives fire officers the advantage of knowing what to expect when they arrive at a fire. This guide to fireground size-up gives firefighters an in-depth and expanded review of fifteen size-up points to help them make decisions that are efficient, effective, and safe.

This volume explores how the National Parks shaped United States' federal fire management policies. Starting in 1886, the military arrived in Yellowstone National Park to guard the area and fight fires. Unlike the U.S. Forest Service, the National Park Service, created in 1916, never had the resources to fight wildfires, and an uneasy contention between the two existed for decades. College-educated scientists emerged in the postwar years with ecological...

Links the last decade's increase in wildfires to human causes and traces the author's investigation into wildfires throughout the world while making predictions about the long-term ecological effects they will have on the planet.