Drift Smoke: Loss and Renewal in a Land of Fire

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Alaback, Paul, 41 Alaska Range, 20 Alexander Archipelago, 20 alpine glaciers, 20 animals: fire and, 27–28; Ice Age extinctions , 22–23 Antelope (Ore.), 8 aspen, 112 Avery (Idaho), 47 backfiring, 49–50; Deep Canyon fire, 94, 97–99; Narrows fire, 86 backpack pumps, 86 Bakeoven Guard Station, 8, 12 Bambi bucket, 58 Barrett, Stephen, 34 Basso, Keith, 108, 110 Battlement Creek fire, 67, 122 Battlement Mesa, 122 Beck, Kathi, 12 Bell (firefighter), 66 Bell Jet Ranger helicopter, 57 Bend (Ore.), 49 Beringia, 19, 20 Berry, Wendell, 110, 116 Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, 8 Bickett, Tami, 12 Big Creek, 66 Bildad, 76 birds: fire and, 28 Bitterroot Mountains, 20, 32, 35, 64 Bitterroot Valley, 33, 34 Blackwater fire, 53, 67 Blackwater Memorial, 70 Blecha, Scott, 12 blm. See Bureau of Land Management blowups: dynamics of, 4; Mann Gulch fire, 4, 52, 78; South Canyon fire, 12, 63 bluebunch wheatgrass, 93 bogs, 32–33 boiling point, 67 Box Elder fire, 9 Brinkley, Levi, 12 Browning (firefighter), 124–25 Buck Hollow Creek, 8 bunchgrass, 93, 94 [ 169] i n d e x Bureau of Land Management (blm), 5, 8, 60; Wilderness Study Areas, 87–88 Cabinet (National Forest), 66 cairns, xvi Canadian Rockies, 20 Canyon Creek Estates, 62, 123 Canyon Ferry District, 78 Cart Creek, 53 Cascade Mountains, 20 catastrophe, 74 Catlin, George, 35, 52–53 cattle, 94, 95, 96, 112 cemeteries, 64–66 charcoal, 32–33 Charlo, Chief, 29, 30 Charlo, Mrs., 30 Chase, Alston, 32, 42 cheatgrass, 94, 100 Clark, William, 35 Clark Fork, 66 Clarno, 84 “classical” tragedy, 73 Clement, Frederic, 21–22 climax community, 22 clouds, 9 Coeur d’Alene (National Forest), 66 cold-trailing, 45 Columbia, Lake, 23 Columbia Plateau, 89 Coman, Warren E., 37 Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, 29 Conflagration Act, 49 Conservation Reserve Program (crp), 48 control-lines, 49 Cordilleran Ice Sheet, 20 Corvallis, 49 Crook County Courthouse, 62 Crook County High School, 4, 7, 14 Crooked River Roundup, 13 crp. See Conservation Reserve Program Currier, Art, 16 D8 Caterpillar, 89 Dalles, The, 49 Danielson (firefighter), 66 Dayville, 12 Dayville Guard Station, 11 dc-6 helicopter, 59 death(s): fire and, 52–54, 66, 69; fire as, xvii; as loss, xvii, xviii–xix; numbers caused by fire, 55; views of, 129–30; the West and, 52, 68–69. See also firefighter fatalities Debbit (firefighter), 66 DeBorgia (Idaho), 66 Deep Canyon, 88–92, 94, 95, 97–99, 100 deer, 27–28, 93, 107 Delta of Colorado, 116 i n d e x [ 170] Deschutes Motel, 8–9 Deschutes River, 7, 8, 9, 45 Deschutes River Canyon, 14 Deschutes River Inn, 9 “Did the Indian Protect the Forest?” (Coman), 37 diseases, 32 “disenfranchised grief,” xx disturbance concept, 28 dozers, 89 driptorches, 97–98 Dude fire, 68 Dunbar, Dough, 12 Ecclesiastes, 72, 73 ecological restoration, 104–7, 129–30, 133–34 ecological succession, 21–22 Eliphaz, 76 elk, 27–28, 107, 113 Elkhorn Mountains, 20 Elliot, Robert, 104 eulogies, 70–71 extinctions, 22–23 farmers and ranchers, 57–58, 59, 88–92, 93–96, 101 fatalities. See firefighter fatalities fatality fires. See tragedy fires fire(s): acreage burned, 54–55; aesthetics and, 99–100; ambivalent nature of, xvii–xviii, xxi; compared to war, 69–70; contradictory nature of, 77; as death, xvii; disturbance concept and, 28; ecological restoration, 104–7, 129–30, 133–34; elements needed for burning , 24; factors affecting, 3; fuel loads and, 54; indigenous, 25–26; as loss, xv–xvi, xviii–xx; naming of, 84; negative view of, xvii; protecting areas from, 97; seen as enemy , 42; as social events, 82–83; winds and, 3–4. See also Native American fire fire camp, 7–8 firefighter fatalities: Battlement Creek fire, 122; eulogies, 70–71; lessons learned from?, 77; Mann Gulch fire, 6; numbers of, 66, 67–68; proximity to fire and, 56; South Canyon fire, 12–13, 124–25 firefighting: environmental awareness and, 85; environmental damage and, 86; women and, 83–84 fire-lines, 49 fire shelters, 57 fireweed, 21 Fish Creek, 110, 111, 112 Flathead Indian Reservation, 35 “focal practices,” 133 forestry: “light burning” and, 36–37 forests: presettlement, 105–7 Forest Service Hotshot crews, 10 i n d e x [ 171] “fringe country,” 111–12 fuel-breaks, 49, 50; Little Ferry Canyon, 87–88 fuel loads, 54 fusee, 86 Gambel oak, 63, 93, 128 Gates of the Mountains, 4, 10, 23...