Overview

In 1988, forest fires raged in Yellowstone National Park, destroying more than a million acres. As the nation watched the land around Old Faithful burn, a longstanding conflict over fire management reached a fever pitch. Should the U.S. Park and Forest Services suppress fires immediately or allow some to run their natural course? When should firefighters be sent to battle the flames and at what cost? Scorched Earth lays a new foundation for examining current fire and environmental policies in America and the world.

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A lively and revealing narrative of the scoundrels, idealists, vainglorious generals and solid pioneers who parleyed a sulfurous, geyser-punctuated paradise into a world-class national park system. --Gerry Wright Natural Areas Journal Scorched Earth will likely be recognized as a seminal work in the West's fire history -- poignant historical analysis, told with a storyteller's flair. --High Country News Scorched Earth is part policy treatise, part history, and part adventure story. --The Washington Post Rocky Barker's Scorched Earth presents Westerners with a much-needed opportunity to consider, with both depth and breadth, the big picture of wildlands fire in the region. Fair, thorough, clearheaded, and wonderfully attentive to the origins of our current practices and problems, Barker provides us with a prime demonstration of the value that journalists with integrity and spirit provide to their society. --Patricia Nelson Limerick Chair of the Board and Faculty Director of the Center of the American West and a Rocky Barker has given us the definitive history of Yellowstone and its fires. This book holds important lessons for managers in the 21st century. It is a tale well told, filled with real significance for anyone who cares about the fate of western lands and the national parks. --Hal Rothman author of Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West and f A lively and revealing narrative of the scoundrels, idealists, vainglorious generals and solid pioneers who parleyed a sulfurous, geyser-punctuated paradise into a world-class national park system. --Richard Rhodes Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb and John James Au

A lively and revealing narrative of the scoundrels, idealists, vainglorious generals and solid pioneers who parleyed a sulfurous, geyser-punctuated paradise into a world-class national park system. --Richard Rhodes Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb and John James Au

A lively and revealing narrative of the scoundrels, idealists, vainglorious generals and solid pioneers who parleyed a sulfurous, geyser-punctuated paradise into a world-class national park system. --Richard Rhodes Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb and John James Au

A lively and revealing narrative of the scoundrels, idealists, vainglorious generals and solid pioneers who parleyed a sulfurous, geyser-punctuated paradise into a world-class national park system. --Gerry Wright Natural Areas Journal A lively and revealing narrative of the scoundrels, idealists, vainglorious generals and solid pioneers who parleyed a sulfurous, geyser-punctuated paradise into a world-class national park system. --Richard Rhodes Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb and John James Au Rocky Barker has given us the definitive history of Yellowstone and its fires. This book holds important lessons for managers in the 21st century. It is a tale well told, filled with real significance for anyone who cares about the fate of western lands and the national parks. --Hal Rothman author of Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West and f Rocky Barker's Scorched Earth presents Westerners with a much-needed opportunity to consider, with both depth and breadth, the big picture of wildlands fire in the region. Fair, thorough, clearheaded, and wonderfully attentive to the origins of our current practices and problems, Barker provides us with a prime demonstration of the value that journalists with integrity and spirit provide to their society. --Patricia Nelson Limerick Chair of the Board and Faculty Director of the Center of the American West and a Scorched Earth will likely be recognized as a seminal work in the West's fire history -- poignant historical analysis, told with a storyteller's flair. --High Country News Scorched Earth is part policy treatise, part history, and part adventure story. --The Washington Post

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Rocky Barker is the author of three books, including Saving All the Parts (Island Press, 1993). The environmental writer for the Idaho Statesman in Boise, Barker has seen his columns syndicated in newspapers across the nation. The National Wildlife Federation awarded him with its National Conservation Achievement Award in 1999.

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