"Considers the long history of ecological burns, the varied ways fire behaves across the state, and the lessons that can be learned from California's largest fires of recent decades"--
"Considers the long history of ecological burns, the varied ways fire behaves across the state, and the lessons that can be learned from California's largest fires of recent decades"--
Obi Kaufmann is the author of The California Field Atlas (2017, #1 San Francisco Chronicle Best Seller), The State of Water (2019), The Forests of California (2020), The Coasts of California (2022), and The Deserts of California (2023), all published by Heyday. When he is not backpacking, you can find the painter-poet at home in the East Bay, posting trail paintings at his handle @coyotethunder on Instagram. His speaking tour dates are available at californiafieldatlas.com, and his essays are posted at coyoteandthunder.com. He lives in Oakland, CA.
Inhaltsangabe
Chapters * California Counties * National Forests in California * California Major Watersheds Introduction * Searching for Nature in the Anthropocene: Spring in Whiskeytown * Learning to be from here: What fire in California means Fire History * Endemic pyrosymbiosis: The evolution of fire in California * A tragedy of misconceptions: When the wilderness is not wild * Cultural fire on the land: Traditional Ecological Knowledge * Colonial conflagration: Genocide and Ecocide * The Coming of Modern Megafire: Why and how now is different. * The Century of Reset and Reckoning: California fire in the twenty-first century * Map—North Coast and Klamath Regions * Map—Bay Area and Sonoma-Berryessa Regions * Map—Central Coast * Map—Western Transverse Ranges * Map—South Coast and Peninsula Ranges * Map—Southeast California * Map—Southern Sierra Nevada * Map—Northern Sierra Nevada * Map—Northeast and Cascade Regions Fire Ecology * The restorative power of fire: The (new) science of fire * Succession and conversion: Fire's ecological energy release * Patterns of vulnerability and resilience: Bioregional Fire Ecology * Region 1—North Coast and North Coast Ranges * Region 2—Klamath * Region 3—Central Coast * Region 4—South Coast * Region 5—Southeastern deserts * Region 6—Sierra Nevada * Region 7—Cascades * Region 8—Northeastern plateaus * Region 9—Central Valley * Pyrodiversity and biodiversity: Resiliency and postfire ecological response * Abundance and variation: How fire affects animals * Dependency and enhancement: How fire affects plants Fire Principles * World on Fire: Climate Breakdown and Global Stress * Fire as the hunter: Human culpability, fire threat and fire design * A policy of prescription: Opportunities and challenges in normalizing wildland fire * Repair, restore and reciprocate: A vision of California in the balance * Between tradition and innovation: A better story for fire Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography About the Author
Chapters * California Counties * National Forests in California * California Major Watersheds Introduction * Searching for Nature in the Anthropocene: Spring in Whiskeytown * Learning to be from here: What fire in California means Fire History * Endemic pyrosymbiosis: The evolution of fire in California * A tragedy of misconceptions: When the wilderness is not wild * Cultural fire on the land: Traditional Ecological Knowledge * Colonial conflagration: Genocide and Ecocide * The Coming of Modern Megafire: Why and how now is different. * The Century of Reset and Reckoning: California fire in the twenty-first century * Map—North Coast and Klamath Regions * Map—Bay Area and Sonoma-Berryessa Regions * Map—Central Coast * Map—Western Transverse Ranges * Map—South Coast and Peninsula Ranges * Map—Southeast California * Map—Southern Sierra Nevada * Map—Northern Sierra Nevada * Map—Northeast and Cascade Regions Fire Ecology * The restorative power of fire: The (new) science of fire * Succession and conversion: Fire's ecological energy release * Patterns of vulnerability and resilience: Bioregional Fire Ecology * Region 1—North Coast and North Coast Ranges * Region 2—Klamath * Region 3—Central Coast * Region 4—South Coast * Region 5—Southeastern deserts * Region 6—Sierra Nevada * Region 7—Cascades * Region 8—Northeastern plateaus * Region 9—Central Valley * Pyrodiversity and biodiversity: Resiliency and postfire ecological response * Abundance and variation: How fire affects animals * Dependency and enhancement: How fire affects plants Fire Principles * World on Fire: Climate Breakdown and Global Stress * Fire as the hunter: Human culpability, fire threat and fire design * A policy of prescription: Opportunities and challenges in normalizing wildland fire * Repair, restore and reciprocate: A vision of California in the balance * Between tradition and innovation: A better story for fire Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography About the Author
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