Fire and ice, forest and mountain, poetry and policy – the Northern Rockies has it all.
Big fires with big consequences, a great fire literature, conflagrations to match its mountains – what’s not to like? A brief recon of one of America’s most storied fire landscapes.
Big Burns – a prolegomenon to fire in the Northern Rockies
The Big Blowup – the region’s formative fire; thoughts on the occasion of its centennial
The Missoula matrix - one of America’s three major fire cultures
The paradoxes of wilderness fire – a reconsideration of fire and wilderness, and the chasm between philosophy and practice
Fire’s call of the wild – reflections on the 40th anniversary of the Bad Luck fire, the first sanctioned natural fire within the national forest system
The embers will find a way – a profile of Jack Cohen, Missoula Fire Lab scientist
Interlude: Young men, old men, and fire – the Northern Rockies’ generational theme
Portal: Gates of the Mountains
How I came to Mann Gulch – thoughts on creating a literary blowup
Fire by parallax - fire in the Flathead Reservation
The second Big Blowup: the Great Fires of 1988
The other Big Burn - reflections on fire at Glacier National Park
The Northern Rockies between two fires
