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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Tucson :
The University of Arizona Press,
2016.
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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.