| Contents Notes |
pt. I. People in flame zones -- 1. The plan of the work -- 2. "The lab" and "the lab" extended -- pt. II. The politics of Cold War migration -- 3. From danger into danger -- 4. Unforeseen consequences -- 5. Truman, Eisenhower, and the road gang -- pt. III. At the end of the line -- 6. Managing wildfire -- 7. Scapegoating as distraction in 2000 -- 8. Scapegoating and false remedies -- pt. IV. Learning from the history of fire -- 9. The mentors : Marsh, Gallatin, Olmsted, and Thoreau -- 10. Carl Schurz, fire, and the Wisconsin example -- 11. Migration, fire, erosion, and John Wesley Powell -- 12. Smoke, dust, and the land -- 13. Urbanism, dispersion theory, migration, and fire danger -- pt. V. Whereas ... and therefore ... -- 14. Longer and larger precedents -- 15. Toward a healthy forests and communities corps -- 16. Toward a national flame zone atlas -- 17. Managing both sides of the interface -- 18. The legacies of Stewart Chase and Gilbert White -- 19. Sun daggers, grace, limits, and theology -- Appendix: Jonathan Edwards and imperial Connecticut. "Wildfire and Americans is a passionate, deeply informed appeal that we acknowledge that wildfire is not a fire problem, but a people problem. Americans are in the wrong places, channeled there by wrong policies. There are no natural disasters, only people in disastrous circumstances."--Jacket. |
