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Summary: "Considers the long history of ecological burns, the varied ways fire behaves across the state, and the lessons that can be learned from California's largest fires of recent decades"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heyday 2024
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Summary: "A timely middle grade book exploring the incredible ways animals detect, respond, and adapt to wildfires, as well as how climate change is affecting the frequency and severity of these devastating events in nature"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.2 STRHenry, Jeff.
Summary: "The Yellowstone fires of 1988 consumed nearly 800,000 acres--36 percent of the park. In the years following, spectacular wildflowers rose from the ashes and trees rapidly reclaimed the landscape. In this twenty-five-year look back at the fires, author and photographer Jeff Henry recalls not only the summer of 1988, when he witnessed and photographed nearly every aspect of the fires, but also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taylor Trade Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 HENSummary: Covers a broad range of ecological, economic, social, and political perspectives on one of natures' most potent forces, and the past century of failed attempts to control these wild events. Through photographs and essays by scientists, media critics, firefighters, and activists, this book challenges the view of wildfire as a destructive element and encourages us to embrace its positive role in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Foundation for Deep Ecology by arrangement with Island Press 2006
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 634.9618 WILMaclean, John N.
Summary: A history of American wildfires recounts the most significant fires, sharing front-line stories, past and present firefighting strategies, and the apparent increase in fire occurrence and intensity in recent years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.379 MACMott, Nick
Summary: "Wildfires are getting more destructive than ever before. Flames in forests are scorching about twice as many trees as they did two decades ago, and nearly 100,000 homes, barns, and other structures have been incinerated. "Fire seasons" are now fire years. Tens of millions of people live in areas vulnerable to fire, and more keep moving in. Driven in part by climate change, the areas burned and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023
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Summary: "Environmental scientist Ferin Anderson and author Stephanie Sammartino McPherson examine how Indigenous people, farmers, and forestry departments have used fire to manage resources and how climate change is impacting the future of fire"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024