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The purpose of this section of the class is to provide you with a selection of addition readings and resources that should help you form a more complete understanding of the events and policies of wildland fire management.


Books Used to Develop the Course:

1. Arno and Alisson-Bunnell (2002), Flames in Our Forest: Disaster or Renewal? Island Press, 227pp

2. Dana (1956), Forest and Range Policy, McGraw-Hill, 455pp.

3. Egan (2009), The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America, Mariner Books, 324pp

4. Pyne (1995), World Fire: The Culture of Fire on Earth, University of Washington Press, 384pp.

5. Pyne, Andrews, and Laven (1996), Introduction to Wildland Fire, 2nd Edition, Wiley, 769pp.

6. Pyne (1997a), Fire in America: A Cultural history of Wildland and Rural Fire, University of Washington Press, 654pp.

7. Pyne (1997b), Vestal Fire: An Environmental History, Told Through Fire, of Europe and Europe's Encounter with the World, University of Washington Press, 659pp.

8. Pyne (2001), Fire: A Brief History, University of Washington Press, 204pp.

9. Pyne (2010), American's Fires: A Historical Context for Policy and Practice (2010), The Forest Historical Society, Issues Series. $10 from the Forest Historical Society.

10. Teie (2005), Firefighter's Handbook on Wildland Firefighting (2005), Deer Valley Press, $58 from Amazon.
    

11. Various (2006), The Wildfire Reader: A Century of Failed Forest Policy, Ed George Wuerthner, Island Press, 429pp. 

12. Wilkinson and Anderson (1987), Land and Resource Planning in the National Forests, Island Press, 396pp