Firestorm: How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future

273 Pages·2017·17.936 MB·English

by  Edward Struzik (auth.)

HOW WILDFIRE WILL SHAPE OUR FUTURE
E D W A R D S T R U Z I K

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Firestorm

Firestorm
How Wildfire Will
Shape Our Future
Edward Struzik
Washington | Covelo | London
Copyright © 2017 Edward Struzik
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Island Press, 2000 M Street, NW, Suite 650, Washington, DC 20036
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Keywords: Alaska, Alberta, Arctic, arsenic, asbestos, Banff, biodiversity,
boreal forest, British Columbia, California, Canada, carbon bomb,
climate change, Colorado, Denver, drought, fire ecology, fire management,
fire suppression, FireSmart, First Nations, Fort McMurray, Horse River Fire,
hydrology, Montana, mountain pine beetle, oil sands, Ontario, permafrost,
resilience, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Slave Lake, spruce budworm,
water quality, watershed, Wood Buffalo
Library of Congress Control Number: 2017940667
All Island Press books are printed on environmentally responsible materials.
Manufactured in the United States of America
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To my wife, Julia; my children, Jacob and Sigrid;
and to firefighters and first responders everywhere.
And to the First Nations people of Canada and the
North American native people of the United States, with
apologies for our failure to view wildfire the way you once did.