Notes
Introduction . The epigraph at the beginning of the chapter is from Jack Cohen, “What is the Wildland Fire Threat to Homes?” Thompson Memorial Lecture, School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, April , . . Kim Sorvig, editorial in the Santa Fe New Mexican, May , . . The man who pioneered a sophisticated technical approach to the Wildfire Danger Zone was a physicist named C. P. Butler. See his work, “The Urban/Wildland Fire Interface,” in Proceedings of Western States Section/Combustion Institute Papers May –, Spokane, Washington vol. , no. (): –. . There are encouraging signs that the fire establishment is developing systematic ways of listening to the concerns of landowners. See G. J. Winter, Christina Vogt, and Jeremy S. Fried, “Fuel Treatments at the Wildland-Urban Interface,” Journal of Forestry (). . William Riebsame-Travis et al., eds. An Atlas of the New West: Portrait of a Changing Region (New York: W. W. Norton, ). . R. W. Kimmerer and Frank Kanawha Lake, “Maintaining the Mosaic: The Role of Indigenous Burning in Land Management,” Journal of Forestry (). . Joseph Heller, Catch- (New York: Ballantine, ). We sometimes forget the origins of the phrase “Catch-”—it has become second nature to so many of us since the Vietnam War. As originally used by Joseph Heller in his novel about World War II, “Catch-” satirizes the horrors of war and the power of bureaucratic institutions to destroy the human spirit. . Sayeed Mehmood and Daowei Zhang, “Forest Parcelization in the United States,” Journal of Forestry (April ). . Stephen J. Pyne, World Fire: The Culture of Fire on Earth (Seattle: University of Washington Press, ), p. . . Stephen J. Pyne, An Introduction to Wildland Fire: Fire Management in the United States (New York: John Wiley and Sons, ), p. . . Wildland Firefighter , no. (April ). . John C. Freemuth, The Fires Next Time (Boise, Idaho: Andrus Center for Public Policy, ). . In New Mexico, a small federal pilot program identified communities at risk in the Wildfire Danger Zone and helped them organize and act to minimize their fire danger. The Forestry Division of the State Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department is administering this program, which has provided important guidance to the National Fire Plan. Notes . In Colorado, a governor’s task force appointed in the wake of the fires of released its report in late May . It calls for state-assisted county fire management plans and minor changes in the law to clarify which authority has charge of wildfires that jump jurisdictional lines. Governor Bill Owens said that even though the government has a public safety role in controlling wildfires, private property owners must share the burden. . Ross Gorte, “Forest Fire Protection,” Congressional Research Service, December , . . Fred Ebel, “Reducing the Risk of Wildfire,” testimony of the president of the Society of American Foresters before the Committee on Resources Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, U.S. House of Representatives, September , . . For a fiscally and ecologically restrained point of view, see John Baden and Pete Geddes, “Suggested Cures for Forest Fires Way off Mark,” Bozeman Daily Chronicle, September , . Chapter . Samuel P. Hayes, Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, – (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, ). . Gifford Pinchot, The Training of a Forester (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., ), p. . . Curt Meine, Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, ). . For a fuller discussion of Arthur Carhart, see Andrew G. Kirk, The Gentle Science (Denver: Denver Public Library, ); Andrew G. Kirk, Collecting Nature (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, ); Thomas J. Wolf, Beauty and the Beast: A Biography of Arthur Carhart (Niwot: University Press of Colorado, forthcoming); Thomas J. Wolf, Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains (; rev. ed. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, ). . For the best discussion of the transformation of land grants into national forests, see William deBuys, Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, ). . Pyne, An Introduction to Wildland Fire, p. . . Bruce Babbitt, “A Coordinated Campaign: Fight Fire with Fire” (speech at Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, February , ). . Robert H. Nelson, Ending the Forest Fire Gridlock: Making Fire Fighting in the West a State and Local Responsibility (St. Louis, Mo.: Competitive Enterprise Institute, ).; Robert H. Nelson, A Burning Issue: A Case for Abolishing the U.S. Forest Service (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, ). . USDA Forest Service, Course to the Future: Positioning Fire and Aviation Management (Washington, D.C., July ). . Jack Ward Thomas, “The Instability of Stability” (talk delivered at the University of Montana, October , ). . USDA Forest Service, Course to the Future. . Ibid. Chapter . For a fuller discussion of the...
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