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Folk fire and forest history

By [node:field_contributor] / On July 21st, 2008
Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig, long one of the timber industry's biggest supporters has always had a novel alternative history of forest management in the West. In Sen.
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America’s Great Cultural Revolution on Fire

By [node:field_contributor] / On July 15th, 2008
It was one of many revolutions that bubbled up during the Sixties, and for most people not a very significant one, but for those concerned with fire and wildlands it amounted to America's great cultural revolution on fire. The inaugural Tall Timbers fire ecology conference in 1962 was its opening salvo. Intellectual opposition collapsed like a wet sack. Over the winter of 1967-68 the National Park Service formally rechartered its fire policy. The Forest Service followed a decade later.
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Yellowstone Fire 20th Anniversary

By [node:field_contributor] / On July 10th, 2008
The Yellowstone fires that burned more than a million acres in and around the park in 1988 were the signal fires of a new world. They signaled that we would live in a different world in the American West at the beginning of the 21st Century. The fires and ecological processes we assumed were natural had already fallen under the influence of human civilization's dependence on fossil fuels. The 1988 fires also signaled that our world was getting dryer and hotter.

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