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From Publishers Weekly
Following last summer's wildfires and debate over "controlled burning," Pyne, author of the five-volume Cycle of Fire and the much-acclaimed How the Canyon Became Grand, has become one of the most widely consulted experts on American fire policy. While this book's focus is on fires that raged 91 years ago in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, it addresses such perennial questions as whether there can be a "good" forest fire and the place of fire in healthy forest ecology. Fighting the 1910 Great Fires ignited variously by lightning, abandoned campfires and "candle-sized flames sparked by railroads" cost many lives and injured hundreds. An continuing program of human-controlled "light burning" might have been better, but infighting in scientific forestry circles (compounded by political and bureaucratic sniping) silenced this minority position. Teddy Roosevelt was "bully" on conservation and his five-year-old Forest Service was devoutly antifire. Fire wasn't seen as a natural part of the forest's life cycle it was the enemy and it had to be stopped, no matter how many lives it cost. Pyne builds his case with a dense, month-by-month chronology. At his best with a hard-luck or disaster story, he overwrites his polemic sections shamelessly, occasionally lapsing into awkward similes (firefighters crowded into a cave like "oats in a feedbag"). Maps make the fire's geography easier to follow, while the photo inset gives a period flavor to the tale. (May 7)Forecast: A sharp dust jacket and an author tour in the West, combined with Pyne's eminence in his field, will draw attention to this book, but his generally lifeless prose won't spark major sales.
From Library Journal
Pyne (How the Canyon Became Grand; Arizona State Univ.) offers a narrative of the catastrophic wildland fires of 1910 and skillfully describes the horrors and fears they caused. Most important, the author places the 1910 fires in the cultural and political context of their time. At the time, America was passing from a rural to an urban society, industrial growth abounded, and progressive politicians included conservation in their agenda of reforms. People and agencies, such as the U.S. Forest Service, were challenged to develop firefighting policies and to study the beneficial uses of fires. This is also a story of rangers, soldiers, bureaucrats, settlers, railroads, and heroes. Pyne's book joins Norman Maclean's Young Men and Fire (LJ 8/92) and Carl Johnson's Fire on the Mountain (LJ 10/1/94) as a classic study of wildland fires; recommended for all libraries. Patricia Ann Owens, Wabash Valley Coll., Carmel, IL
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Following last summer's wildfires and debate over "controlled burning," Pyne, author of the five-volume Cycle of Fire and the much-acclaimed How the Canyon Became Grand, has become one of the most widely consulted experts on American fire policy. While this book's focus is on fires that raged 91 years ago in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, it addresses such perennial questions as whether there can be a "good" forest fire and the place of fire in healthy forest ecology. Fighting the 1910 Great Fires ignited variously by lightning, abandoned campfires and "candle-sized flames sparked by railroads" cost many lives and injured hundreds. An continuing program of human-controlled "light burning" might have been better, but infighting in scientific forestry circles (compounded by political and bureaucratic sniping) silenced this minority position. Teddy Roosevelt was "bully" on conservation and his five-year-old Forest Service was devoutly antifire. Fire wasn't seen as a natural part of the forest's life cycle it was the enemy and it had to be stopped, no matter how many lives it cost. Pyne builds his case with a dense, month-by-month chronology. At his best with a hard-luck or disaster story, he overwrites his polemic sections shamelessly, occasionally lapsing into awkward similes (firefighters crowded into a cave like "oats in a feedbag"). Maps make the fire's geography easier to follow, while the photo inset gives a period flavor to the tale. (May 7)Forecast: A sharp dust jacket and an author tour in the West, combined with Pyne's eminence in his field, will draw attention to this book, but his generally lifeless prose won't spark major sales.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Pyne (How the Canyon Became Grand; Arizona State Univ.) offers a narrative of the catastrophic wildland fires of 1910 and skillfully describes the horrors and fears they caused. Most important, the author places the 1910 fires in the cultural and political context of their time. At the time, America was passing from a rural to an urban society, industrial growth abounded, and progressive politicians included conservation in their agenda of reforms. People and agencies, such as the U.S. Forest Service, were challenged to develop firefighting policies and to study the beneficial uses of fires. This is also a story of rangers, soldiers, bureaucrats, settlers, railroads, and heroes. Pyne's book joins Norman Maclean's Young Men and Fire (LJ 8/92) and Carl Johnson's Fire on the Mountain (LJ 10/1/94) as a classic study of wildland fires; recommended for all libraries. Patricia Ann Owens, Wabash Valley Coll., Carmel, IL
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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