Author: Robert F. CollinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Daniel Boone National Forest (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
A History of the Daniel Boone National Forest, 1770-1970
Author: Robert F. CollinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Daniel Boone National Forest (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
A History of the Daniel Boone National Forest, 1770-1970
Author: Robert F. CollinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Daniel Boone National Forest (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Selected References Concerning the USDA Forest Service
Author: Slopovers
Author: Stephen J. PynePublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816538794
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
America is not simply a federation of states but a confederation of regions. Some have always held national attention, some just for a time. Slopovers examines three regions that once dominated the national narrative and may now be returning to prominence. The Mid-American oak woodlands were the scene of vigorous settlement in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and thus the scene of changing fire practices. The debate over the origin of the prairies—by climate or fire—foreshadowed the more recent debate about fire in oak and hickory hardwoods. In both cases, today’s thinking points to the critical role of fire. The Pacific Northwest was the great pivot between laissez-faire logging and state-sponsored conservation and the fires that would accompany each. Then fire faded as an environmental issue. But it has returned over the past decade like an avenging angel, forcing the region to again consider the defining dialectic between axe and flame. And Alaska—Alaska is different, as everyone says. It came late to wildland fire protection, then managed an extraordinary transfiguration into the most successful American region to restore something like the historic fire regime. But Alaska is also a petrostate, and climate change may be making it the vanguard of what the Anthropocene will mean for American fire overall. Slopovers collates surveys of these three regions into the national narrative. With a unique mixture of journalism, history, and literary imagination, renowned fire expert Stephen J. Pyne shows how culture and nature, fire from nature and fire from people, interact to shape our world with three case studies in public policy and the challenging questions they pose about the future we will share with fire.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1626
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Unsolved History
Author: Joe NickellPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813191379
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
What constitutes historical truth is often subject to change. Joe Nickell demonstrates the techniques used in solving some of the world's most perplexing mysteries, such as the authenticity of Abraham Lincoln's celebrated Bixby letter, the 1913 disappearance of writer and journalist Ambrose Bierce, and the apparent real-life model for a mysterious character in a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Nickell also uses newly uncovered evidence to further investigate the identity of the Nazi war criminal known as ""Ivan the Terrible.""
The Southern Appalachians
Author: Susan L. YarnellPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428953736
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
General Technical Report SRS
Author: Owsley County, Kentucky, and the Perpetuation of Poverty
Author: John R. Burch, Jr.Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476606943
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Owsley County, Kentucky, is well known by journalists, academics, and local historians as a quintessential example of rural poverty in Appalachia. This study identifies several reasons behind Owsley County's ongoing struggle with poverty, including the county's lack of natural resources, a poor transportation system, and a centralized socio-political power structure controlled by the entrenched elite. The author asserts that Owsley County's economic hardships are far from unique, but rather are representative of a significant number of Appalachian counties and towns. Several tables and appendices provide useful demographic, legislative, and agricultural data.