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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Origin stories -- Fire weather -- Reckoning.
"In May 2016, the city of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, burned to the ground, forcing 88,000 people to flee their homes. It was the largest evacuation ever of a city in the face of a forest fire, raising the curtain on a new age of increasingly destructive wildfires. This book is a suspenseful account of one of North America's most devastating forest fires-and a stark exploration of our dawning era...
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English
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Narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire of August, 1910, and Teddy Roosevelt's pioneering conservation efforts that helped turn public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service with consequences felt in the fires of today.
3) Forest fires
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Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Discusses different kinds of forest fires, how they start, where they occur, and how they can be prevented.
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English
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"On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen Smokejumpers, the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Less than two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or fatally burned. Exactly what happened in Mann Gulch that day has been obscured by years of grief and controversy. Now a master storyteller finally gives the Mann Gulch fire its due as...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Wildfires have been part of the American landscape for thousands of years. Forests need fire--it's as necessary to their well-being as soil and sunlight. But some fires burn out of control, destroying everything and everyone in their path. In this book, you'll find out about how and why wildfires happen, how different groups . . . have managed forests and fire, the biggest wildfires in American history--how they began and . . . stories of both rescue...
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"The Yellowstone fires of 1988 consumed nearly 800,000 acres--36 percent of the park. In the years following, spectacular wildflowers rose from the ashes and trees rapidly reclaimed the landscape. In this twenty-five-year look back at the fires, author and photographer Jeff Henry recalls not only the summer of 1988, when he witnessed and photographed nearly every aspect of the fires, but also the years since as nature healed the charred landscape."--From...
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English
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"The year is 1910. This summer in the Pacific Northwest has been the driest anyone has seen in a long time. The weather is extremely hot and windy. Crops are drying up everywhere. Then, in August, one of the beggest forest fires in U.S. history is sparked. Will you join the fight to battle the fires and save your town? Do you help lead others to safety or try to escape before the town is consumed by flames? With dozens of possible choices, YOU have...
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"Gabe doesn't know where he belongs anymore. His family is caught up in their own lives and his friends barely have time for him...In a desperate move for attention...Gabe sets off fireworks in the woods near his house and causes a small forest fire...In the chaos of the destruction, a coyote named Rill...finds herself far from home...Gabe and Rill’s paths irrevocably cross when Gabe is tasked with cleaning up the forest...The damage to the...
Publisher
Presque Isle County Historical Museum
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The Metz fire started in the late morning of October 15, 1908, somewhere west of Millersburg, Michigan. Driven by gale force winds, by that night the fire had burned all the way to the Lake Huron shoreline. Several villages were literally incinerated and many residents died. This is the compilation of first and second hand stories of this horrendous event.
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English
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As the planet warms, a ripple effect takes place: greenhouse gas emissions create warmer weather, which leads to heat waves, which then contribute to forest fires. Taking a hopeful yet realistic approach, this book encourages readers to understand the relationship between intensifying heat and disaster. It discusses current scientific research, shows examples of heat waves and forest fires all over the world, and encourages citizen engagement with...
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Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II, but just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenya's largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu--some one and a half million people. The story of the system of prisons and work camps where thousands met their deaths has remained largely untold, because of a determined effort by the British to destroy all official...
19) Bambi
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Bambi is a young deer hailed as the 'Prince of the Forest' at his birth. As Bambi grows, he makes friends with the other animals of the forest, in particular a rabbit named Thumper and a skunk named Flower. He learns the skills needed to survive, and he even finds love. One day, however, the human hunters come, and Bambi must learn to be as brave as his father if he is to lead the other deer to safety.
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Gavin McNally's year off volume 1
Language
English
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"The McNallys are spending the night in a California campground when Gavin sees a red glow in the distance. Fire! The McNallys must make quick decisions to get to safety. Just as they think they're in the clear, they find an abandoned dog. Do they have time to rescue her and still escape the fire?" -- Page [4] cover.



