Florida: A Fire Survey

by Stephen J. Pyne

In Florida, fire season is plural, and it is most often a verb. Something can always burn. Fires burn longleaf, slash, and sand pine. They burn wiregrass, sawgrass, and palmetto. The lush growth, the dry winters, the widely cast sparks--Florida is built to burn.

In this important new collection of essays on the region, Stephen J. Pyne colorfully explores the ways the region has approached fire management. Florida has long resisted national...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816532729
• ISBN13: 9780816532728
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.3"