336 pages
English language
Published Aug. 28, 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Timothy Egan: Big Burn (2009, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company)
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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.
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.
Subjects
- Roosevelt, theodore, 1858-1919
- Forest fires
- Pinchot, gifford, 1865-1946
- Conservationists
- United states, national park service
- National parks and reserves, united states
- Montana, history
- Idaho, history
- Forest conservation