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Wildfire: On the Front Lines with Station 8
Contributor(s): Hansen, Heather (Author)
ISBN: 1680510711     ISBN-13: 9781680510713
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
OUR PRICE:   $22.46  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: February 2018
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Nature | Natural Disasters
- Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - Forestry
Dewey: 634.961
LCCN: 2018005656
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.2" W x 9.4" (1.30 lbs) 320 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
Wildfire is a primer on both wildfires and firefighting. Hansen mixes history with interviews and descriptions, and the book has a nice you-are-there feeling.... a book that defines the challenge of fighting the devastation that wildfires bring. -- Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post
  • The author was embedded with one of the busiest wildfire crews in the United States
  • Reveals wildfires through the experiences of the people who go face-to-face with them
  • Focuses on challenges faced in Western states.
Every year wildfires ravage forests, destroy communities, and devastate human lives, with only the bravery of dedicated firefighters creating a barrier against even greater destruction. Throughout the 2016 wildfire season, journalist Heather Hansen witnessed firsthand the heroics of the Station 8 crew in Boulder, Colorado. She tells that story here, layered with the added context of the history, science, landscape, and human behavior that, year-by-year, increases the severity, frequency, and costs of conflagrations in the West. She examines the changes in both mindset and activity around wildfires and tracks the movement from wildfire as something useful, to something feared, to something necessary but roundly dreaded.

Wildfire shares the drama, hardships, and experiences of the firefighters who try, sometimes in vain, to prevent destruction when a spark flares out of control. Hansen tells the rich and frightening stories of the firefighters themselves and the challenges they face: a safety system struggling to keep up with fire seasons that are lengthening, fires that are becoming more extreme, and agencies that are struggling to cover the bills.

Contributor Bio(s): Hansen, Heather: - Heather Hansen is an award-winning reporter, specializing in environmental and travel journalism. Over the past couple of years, she has focused her writing on natural resource issues affecting the Intermountain West.

Hansen's work has appeared in High Country News, Men's Journal, Coastal Living, National Geographic Traveler, Smithsonian, Outside, Mountain Gazette, Away.com, and others. She has been interviewed in print and on the radio and has done book talks and presentations in Boulder, Denver, Boston, San Francisco, and Portland, Oregon.

Hansen is passionate about gathering and telling stories with sharp, engaging narratives. She enjoys weaving together history, ecology, politics, and personalities. And from her days as a Junior Ranger in Cape Cod National Seashore at age seven, she has been a national park junkie.