NOVA's "Fire Wars"

NOVA's "Fire Wars"
Sources

Note: Unless otherwise specified, all sources are NOVA/WGBH.

1. Fire: A Brief History, by Stephen J. Pyne (University of Washington Press, 2001), p. xv.
2. Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire, by Stephen J. Pyne (University of Washington Press, 1997), p. 9.
3. Ibid., pp. 34-40.
4. The Ecology of Fire, by Robert J. Whelan (Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 131.
5. Fire: A Brief History, p. xv.
6. Fire and Civilization, by Johann Goudsblom (Penguin, 1995), p. 1.
9. Vestal Fire: An Environmental History, Told Through Fire, of Europe and Europe's Encounter With the World, by Stephen J. Pyne (University of Washington Press, 1997), p. 525.
10. Red Skies of '88, by A. Richard Guth and Stan B. Cohen (Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., 1989), p. 87.
11. "Environmental Surveys Conducted in the Gulf Region Following the Gulf War to Identify Possible Neurobehavioral Consequences," by Yousif Osman, Environmental Research No. 73, p. 207.
12. "Fire Season 2000 Highlights," National Interagency Fire Center, www.nifc.gov/fireinfo/2000/highlights.html
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. "Fire Season 2000 Statistics," National Interagency Fire Center, www.nifc.gov/fireinfo/2000/stats.html
16. "Wildland Fire Season 2000 At a Glance," National Interagency Fire Center, www.nifc.gov/fireinfo/2000/index.html
17. Fire in America, p. 25.
18. "Mann Gulch Fire: A Race that Couldn't be Won," by Richard C. Rothermel, USDA Forest Service, General Technical Report INT-GTR-299, May 1993, available at www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/int_gtr299/
19. Fire: A Brief History, p. 161.

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