Books

Stephen F. Arno and Steven Allison-Bunnell, Flames in Our Forests: Disaster or Renewal? Washington, DC: Island, 2002. A forest researcher tells the history of fire in the western forests, how it has been excluded, and how we can bring it back.

Jim Carrier, Summer of Fire . Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 1989. A chronicle of the 1988 Yellowstone fires.

Stephen J. Pyne, Fire in America:A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982. Examines the ways in which humans have used fire through history.

Periodical

Charles Mann,"1491," Atlantic Monthly, March 2002.

Websites

Forest Service Fire Sciences Lab, http://firelab.org.

National Interagency Fire Center,www.nifc.gov.

PBS, "Fire Wars," NOVA, www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/fire.

SMOKEYBEAR. com,www. smokeybear.com.

Western Fire Ecology Center, www.fire-ecology.org.