The Southwest: A Fire Survey

by Stephen J. Pyne

With its scattered mountains and high rims, its dry air and summer lightning, its rising tier of biomes from desert grasses to alpine conifers, and its aggressive exurban sprawl, something in the Southwest is ready to burn each year and some high-value assets seem ever in their path. But the past 20 years have witnessed an uptake in savagery, as routine surface burns have mutated into megafires and overrun nearly a quarter of the region's forests...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816532486
• ISBN13: 9780816532483
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"