In 1994, a wildfire on Colorado's Storm King Mountain was wrongly identified at the outset as occurring in South Canyon. This unintentional, seemingly minor human error was the first in a string of m
An award-winning Chicago Tribune journalist and author of the acclaimed Fire on the Mountain traces the 2006 Esperanza Fire in southern California, the tragic deaths of the five-man Forest Service eng
“Pitilessly compelling, the sort of saga devoured in one horrified sitting.”—National Geographic AdventureThe Thirtymile Fire in the North Cascade Range near the Canadian border of
Pyne (life sciences, Arizona State U.), a fire historian and former firefighter, recounts the fires that occurred in the summer of 1910 that burned millions of acres in the Northern Rockies and how US
This volume brings together essays on a range of issues in family law in the United States and England. It provides an unparalleled opportunity to examine how family law has reacted to a period of unp
In 1907 at the age of eighteen, John B. Taylor took a summer job with the US Forest Service—mapping the wilderness and cruising the timber in the as-yet-unroaded Swan Valley in Montana. The job came w
