Fire on the Mesa

Fire on the Mesa

Author: Tracey Lee Chavis

Publisher:

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 9781887805186

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Today's visitors to Mesa Verde National Park see a vastly different landscape than their counterparts did a decade ago. In the past ten years, fire has swept over more than half the acreage contained within the park's boundaries. In 2000 alone, two fires encompassed more than 21,000 acres before they were contained. Fire on the Mesa examines the unique environment of Mesa Verde and the changing view of how to best protect it, taking readers inside the day-to-day struggle to combat wildland fire while protecting priceless cultural resources.


Earth, Water, and Fire

Earth, Water, and Fire

Author: Norman T. Oppelt

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13:

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A discussion, aimed at the general reader, of the prehistoric pottery from the Mesa Verde National Park. Mesa Verde prehistoric remains constitute one division of what Southwestern archaeologists recognize as the Anasazi Culture or tradition in the region. The book is well illustrated, with maps and charts and a large number of photographs of Mesa Verde pottery styles, many in color. Oppelt discusses the development over time of Mesa Verde pottery, explains how Anasazi pottery was made, and explores how pottery was used by the prehistoric people at Mesa Verde.


To the Last Smoke

To the Last Smoke

Author: Stephen J. Pyne

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2020-04-21

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 0816540128

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From boreal Alaska to subtropical Florida, from the chaparral of California to the pitch pine of New Jersey, America boasts nearly a billion burnable acres. In nine previous volumes, Stephen J. Pyne has explored the fascinating variety of flame region by region. In To the Last Smoke: An Anthology, he selects a sampling of the best from each. To the Last Smoke offers a unique and sweeping view of the nation’s fire scene by distilling observations on Florida, California, the Northern Rockies, the Great Plains, the Southwest, the Interior West, the Northeast, Alaska, the oak woodlands, and the Pacific Northwest into a single, readable volume. The anthology functions as a color-commentary companion to the play-by-play narrative offered in Pyne’s Between Two Fires: A Fire History of Contemporary America. The series is Pyne’s way of “keeping with it to the end,” encompassing the directive from his rookie season to stay with every fire “to the last smoke.”


The Haunted Mesa

The Haunted Mesa

Author: Louis L'Amour

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2004-08-03

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0553899198

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The Navajo called them the Anasazi, the “ancient enemy,” and their abandoned cities haunt the canyons and plateaus of the Southwest. For centuries the sudden disappearance of these people baffled historians. Summoned to a dark desert plateau by a desperate letter from an old friend, renowned investigator Mike Raglan is drawn into a world of mystery, violence, and explosive revelations. Crossing a border beyond the laws of man and nature, he will learn of the astonishing world of the Anasazi and discover the most extraordinary frontier ever encountered.


Fire in the Forest

Fire in the Forest

Author: Peter A. Thomas

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-09-23

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 0521822297

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An accessible account of how forest fires work, the ecological effects they have, and why and how we fight fires.