Featured works

Commentary
Commentary on NAS Workshop on Wildland Fire Research
Contribution to ASEH 4oth anniversary presidential slam.
Contemporary American fire
A multi-work survey by grand narrative and regional reconnaissances.
Popular survey of fire
Illustrated digest of why fire looks the way it does today and how to think about it.
Updated textbook
Continuing evolution of textbooks on wildland and landscape fire.
Writing manual
Art and craft of writing nonfiction books, especially history.
Centennial fire
Historical survey of the Great Fires, their context and consequences.
Geographic exploration
A group of books organized around the concept of three great ages of discovery
Fire on Earth
Includes fire histories for Earth, America, Canada, Australia, and Europe including Russia. Other books on fire management.
Grand Canyon Suite
The Grand Canyon provides a setting, at least in part, for several books.

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Long Now talk
"Fire slow, fire fast, fire deep" - talk for Long Now Foundation (2016)
TED Talk
TED Talk - "Fire, a biography," 2015
Brown University, Center for Environment and Society
Public lecture on "Fire, a biography," a much expanded version of my TED Talk, along with audience questions.
Center For Biology and Society - 20th anniversary series
Scholar on fire; or, life as a pyromantic
CSPAN
C-SPAN interview on Between Two Fires, Oct 2016. At minute 10:00 our sheep decided to provide comic relief.
Senate testimony
Testimony before Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee, May 5, 2015. On timeline see 19:40-23:50 and 1:58-2:01:20.
Lessons Learned interview
2010 interview, poor sound, various topics in fire history and at onset of what became Between Two Fires and To the Last Smoke.