Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy Book

	Wildfire myths
	The political decision-making process
	Worldview
	Deep valuing of wildlands as ecosystems : learning sustainability from the integrity and resilience of natural systems
Pt. I	Wildfire : perspectives and visions
	Introduction : humans and fire	3
	The fire of life : thinking about the biological basis for fire	5
	A spiral dance : the necessity of fire to wildness	9
	Fire and native peoples : a natural or humanized landscape?	13
	Coyote wildfire : evolving firefighters into fire guiders	19
	Hot news : media coverage of wildfire	25
	Incendiary language : how language affects our perceptions	30
	Don't get hosed : how political framing influences fire policy	33
	Lifetimes with fire : a place in the wildland interface	37
Pt. II	Fire ecology : stories and studies
	Introduction : fire-adapted landscapes	45
	The Yellowstone fires of 1988 : a living wilderness	46
	Fire ecology of the Sierra Nevada : forests born to burn	63
	Wildfire management on a human-dominated landscape : California chaparral wildfires	69
	Fire in the Klamath-Siskiyou ecoregion : protecting and restoring the fire mosaic	77
	Fire in the southwest : a historical context	87
	Fire in the east : welcoming back a native son	95
	Applied historical ecology : using the past to manage for the future	99
	Fire and succession : a critical process for forest bird populations	111
Pt. III	The phoenix rises from the ashes : fire and its paradoxes
	Introduction : fire and rebirth	121
	How to look and see	122
Pt. IV	(Un)healthy forest policy : suppression, salvage, and scurrilous solutions
	Introduction : vested interests as purveyors of forest health	177
	Logging and wildfire : ecological differences and the need to preserve large fires	179
	After the smoke clears : ecological impacts of salvage logging	185
	Conventional salvage logging : the loss of ecological reason and economic restraint	191
	Pyro cows : the role of livestock grazing in worsening fire severity	197
Pt. V	The new gravy train : the emergence of the fire-military-industrial complex
	Introduction : the flawed economics of fire suppression	203
	Avoiding a new "conspiracy of optimism" : the economics of forest fuel reduction strategies	205
	Money to burn : wildfire and the budget	217
	The war on wildfire : firefighting and the militarization of forest fire management	223
Pt. VI	Eliminating the smokescreen : toward an intelligent fire policy
	Introduction : learning to live with fire-dependent ecosystems	235
	Ecological restoration of southwestern ponderosa pine ecosystems : a broad perspective
	Keep the greenfire burning : deep ecology and prescribed fire	249
	Sprawling into disaster : the growing impact of rural residential development on wildland fire management in the greater yellowstone area	255
	Burning down the house : the role of disaster aid in subsidizing catastrophe	261
	The community protection zone : defending homes and communities from the threat of forest fire	265
Pt. VII	Time to retire smokey bear
	The ultimate firefight : changing hearts and minds	273
	Smokey the bear sutra	278