What's happening
RECENT NEWS
Books ~
* Five Suns: a Fire History of Mexico. A historical survey from the Chicxulub Crater to to the Coahuila fires of 2011, organized into five eras, each with its signature fire.
* Pyrocene Park. Yosemite as a microcosm of an Earth moving from an ice age to a fire age.
And some essays ~
* Owning the WUI: HIZ, HERZ, ITZ ~ getting the wildland out of the wildland-urban interface
* What fire wants ~ a really different paradigm, written for the Hollywood Reporter
* Cicero meets the Cretaceous - given the interlayering of lithic and living landscapes, maybe it's time to find a term to characterize it? How about 'third nature'? Published in Environmental History
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OTHER PROJECTS
Undying Fire: A Fire History of Europe. An update, reconceptualization, and severe abridgement of Vestal Fire. Publication set for July, 2026.
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How the Kaibab Burned: A Short History. The Kaibab Plateau is best known for the Grand Canyon that excavates its southern flank. But the remainder of the plateau hosts a remarkable forest with a revealing fire history. A complementary project to How the Canyon Became Grand.
Telegraphing Fire. A survey of fire on the Tonto National Forest, organized around the 2021 Telegraph megafire.
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Scenes from public lectures (click on topic for video). (top l) With Steward Brand for Long Now SALT Talk; (top r) TED 2015; (bottom) AGU 2023 plenary