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The big burn
Timothy Egan · 2009 · 336 pages
Nature conservationConservationistsPresidentsUnited StatesUnited States. National Park ServiceForest fires
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About this book
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.
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