Marrin, Albert
Summary: Packed with dramatic stories and compelling photos, this look at the most destructive wildfires in American history teaches us about the past and shows a better way forward to fight forest fires in the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 634.9 MARVaillant, John
Summary: Origin stories -- Fire weather -- Reckoning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.37 VAIManning, Matthew K.
Summary: Zora Michaels hides her genius and passion for technology behind a girly image, but when a boy goes missing just as a forest fire threatens, Zora and a Drone Academy friend help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC MANMarrin, Albert
Summary: "Wildfires have been part of the American landscape for thousands of years. Forests need fire--it's as necessary to their well-being as soil and sunlight. But some fires burn out of control, destroying everything and everyone in their path. In this book, you'll find out about how and why wildfires happen, how different groups . . . have managed forests and fire, the biggest wildfires in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 634.9 MARLawrence, Iain
Summary: Eleven-year-old Virgil Pepper is returning to Little Lost Lake in Oregon with his older brother and sister to scatter their mother's ashes in the place she loved best, but when their van breaks down in the middle nowhere, it is up to Virgil, who shared his mother's love of science and the wild, to remember and use all the lessons she taught him to survive a forest fire started by a lightning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022
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Summary: Separated from his siblings in the midst of a dangerous forest fire, 11-year-old Virgil must find a way to survive using only his wits and the lessons his late mother taught him about the wilderness.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC LAWLang, Heidi
Summary: Abby, Emma, and Ollie are squabbling sisters on a punishment hike up a mountain with their camp counselor, Dana, when they suddenly find themselves completely on their own, and spot the smoke of a forest fire above them; in order to survive they need to learn to depend on each other--or the name of the hiking area, No Return Wilderness, may prove to be prophetic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LANKorté, Steve
Summary: "Created by the U.S. Forest Service in 1944 in reaction to forest fires being used as attacks during World War II, Smokey Bear has been guiding Americans through fire safety and preparedness for nearly eighty years. This American black bear known for wearing a pair of blue jeans and a forest ranger hat has found himself in classrooms, on stamps, in cartoons, on lunchboxes, in comic strips, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SMOHenry, 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 HENEgan, Timothy.
Summary: The unfogettable story of America's worst inferno and Teddy Roosevelt's triumphant struggle to save the American forest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2009
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 973.911 EGASummary: Inspired by Timothy Egan's best-selling book, The Big Burn is the dramatic story of an unimaginable wildfire that swept across the Northern Rockies in the summer of 1910. The fire devoured more than three million acres in 36 hours, confronting the fledgling U.S. Forest Service with a catastrophe that would define the agency and the nation's fire policy for the rest of the 20th century and beyond.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BIGKaufmann, Obi
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: "Inspired by the author's grandfather's experiences living in a lodge in the woods, a story of how people and animals survive a forest fire in a small Canadian town"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 971 BONEgan, Timothy.
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, THEODORE EGAHenry, April
Summary: "When a fire engulfs an Oregon forest, a group of trapped hikers must find another way out"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HENCollins, Ailynn
Summary: "The year is 1910. This summer in the Pacific Northwest has been the driest anyone has seen in a long time. The weather is extremely hot and windy. Crops are drying up everywhere. Then, in August, one of the beggest forest fires in U.S. history is sparked. Will you join the fight to battle the fires and save your town? Do you help lead others to safety or try to escape before the town is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC COLMathews, Daniel
Summary: Climate change manifests in many ways across America, but few as dramatic as the attacks on our western pine forests. In Trees in Trouble, Daniel Mathews tells the urgent story of this loss, accompanying burn crews and forest ecologists as they study the myriad risk factors and refine techniques for improving forest health and saving this important, limited resource.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 634.9 MATSummary: 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 WILLeschak, Peter M.
Summary: A wildland firefighter recounts moments from his career and the history of firefighting while describing the events of the disastrous Peshtigo, Wisconsin fire of 1871, as documented in the diary of one of its survivors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 634.9618 LESHenderson, Leah
Summary: A retelling of a tale of bravery against seemingly insurmountable odds and a community working together to overcome adversity, reminding us that no challenge is too great, and that even the smallest of us can make a world of difference. Includes the origins of the folktale and facts about hummingbirds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HENHooper, Chloe
Summary: "The true story of the most devastating wildfire in Australian history and the search for the man who started it. What kind of person would deliberately start a firestorm? What kind of mind? On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as BlackSaturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. In the Valley, where the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.16 HOOGeorge, K. (Kallie)
Summary: "Summer has come to Fernwood Forest, and the staff of the Heartwood Hotel must trust each other as they contend with their biggest challenge yet"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York 2018
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Summary: "On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen Smokejumpers, the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Less than two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or fatally burned. Exactly what happened in Mann Gulch that day has been obscured by years of grief and controversy. Now a master...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 634.9618 MACLSummary: Bambi is a young deer hailed as the 'Prince of the Forest' at his birth. As Bambi grows, he makes friends with the other animals of the forest, in particular a rabbit named Thumper and a skunk named Flower. He learns the skills needed to survive, and he even finds love. One day, however, the human hunters come, and Bambi must learn to be as brave as his father if he is to lead the other deer to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2005
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY BAMCopies Available at Interlochen
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