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Dark Days at Noon The Future of Fire

By: Edward Struzik(Author)
320 pages, 98 colour & b/w photos
Dark Days at Noon
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  • Dark Days at Noon ISBN: 9780228012092 Hardback Sep 2022 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 6 days
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The catastrophic runaway wildfires advancing through North America and other parts of the world are not unprecedented. Fires loomed large once human activity began to warm the climate in the 1820s, leading to an aggressive firefighting strategy that has left many of the continent's forests too old and vulnerable to the fires that many tree species need to regenerate.

Dark Days at Noon provides a broad history of wildfire in North America, from before European contact to the present, in the hopes that we may learn from how we managed fire in the past, and apply those lessons in the future. As people continue to move into forested landscapes to work, play, live, and ignite fires – intentionally or unintentionally – fire has begun to take its toll, burning entire towns, knocking out utilities, closing roads, and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people. Fire management in North America requires attention and cooperation from both sides of the border, and many of the most significant fires have taken place at the boundary line. Despite a clear lack of urgency among political leaders, Edward Struzik argues that wildfire science needs to guide the future of fire management and that those same leaders need to shape public perception accordingly.

By explaining how society's misguided response to fire has led to our current situation, Dark Days at Noon warns of what may happen in the future if we do not learn to live with fire as the continent's Indigenous Peoples once did.

Contents

Acknowledgments   vii

Introduction   1
1. Prelude to the Dark Days at Noon   18
2. The Fire Triangle   22
3. More Dark Days Coming   32
4. The Big Burn   46
5. Big Burns in Canada   56
6. Paiute Forestry   72
7. Fire Suppression   80
8. The Civilian Conservation Corps   91
9. Canada’s Conservation Corps   100
10. The Fall of the Dominion Forest Service   116
11. The Royal Commission into Wildfire   120
12. White Man’s Fire   125
13. International Co-operation   130
14. Blue Moon and Blue Sun   138
15. Nuclear Winter   143
16. Yellowstone: A Turning Point   148
17. Big and Small Grizzlies   157
18. Climate and the Age of Megafire   161
19. The Holy Shit Fire   166
20. The Pyrocene   177
21. Nuclear Winter: Part Two   188
22. Owls and Clear-Cuts   196
23. Water on Fire   203
24. The Arctic on Fire   214
25. The Big Smoke   224
26. Fire News   232
Conclusion   251

Illustrations   265
Notes   271
Index   287

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Biography

Edward Struzik is the 2022 Jarislowsky Fellow at the University of Waterloo as well as a fellow at Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy in the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University.

By: Edward Struzik(Author)
320 pages, 98 colour & b/w photos
Media reviews

"Dark Days at Noon explores the role of wildland fire in history and also looks into the future of wildfire. A skilled storyteller, Struzik has the keen ability to reach his audience while maintaining a high standard with respect to science. The main lesson herein is that we will have to learn to live with fire as opposed to trying to exterminate fire from the landscape."
– Mike Flannigan, Canadian Partnership for Wildland Fire Science, University of Alberta

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