Florida : a fire survey /

"The Tallahassee region became the ignition point for the fire revolution of the 1960s; today, it remains the Silicon Valley of prescription burning. How and why this happened is the topic of a fire reconnaissance that begins in the panhandle and follows Floridian fire south to the Everglades&q...

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Main Author: Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2016.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780816533695
0816533695
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Greater Tallahassee
  • Hearth: American fire's Silicon Valley
  • After the revolution: Tall Timbers Research Station
  • Into the open air: the National Interagency Prescribed Fire Training Center
  • Our pappies are still burning the woods: the southern culture behind prescribed fire
  • Not even past: Ichauway Plantation and the Jones Ecological Research Center
  • The Florida Forest Service: Florida's fire fulcrum
  • Interlude: the many reasons and singular reality of Florida fire
  • Panhandle and peninsula
  • The more things change: Eglin Air Force Base
  • Regime change: St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge
  • East is east, west is west: Deseret Ranches
  • A tale of two landscapes: Myakka River State Park and Babcock-Webb Wildlife Management Area
  • Foot in the black: the Nature Conservancy in Florida
  • Fire 101 at Star Fleet Academy: Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge
  • Under the dome: Big Cypress National Preserve
  • The everburns: Everglades National Park
  • Epilogue: Florida between two fires.