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	<title>Eco-Compass &#187; Steve Pyne</title>
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		<title>Two fires.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pyne</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Then: Southern California burns, 2008
Even for the literal-minded, it was hard not to lump the conflagrations on Wall Street with those in Southern California.  The meltdown of 401(k)s with the street signs at Sylmar.  The frantic, ever-escalating press conferences and bailouts of any significant credit institution with the desperate deployment of ever-greater masses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Pyne: Cultivated Fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pyne</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Megafires appear to be breaking out everywhere, from Provence to Greece, Mongolia and the Russian Far East to New South Wales and San Diego.  But hectare for hectare, the most explosive fire scene on Earth belongs to Iberia, specifically Portugal and Galicia.  In recent years most of northern Portugal has burned over.  The 2006 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Pyne: Rx Fire</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/152/steve-pyne-rx-fire</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pyne</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If we can&#8217;t trust nature to do what we want, and if we can&#8217;t suppress fire, then it seems we ought to do the burning ourselves.  This in fact is what humanity has done since we seized the firestick from Homo erectus.  And it is the third strategy of wildland fire management.
The benefits seem apparent.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Pyne: The firefight</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pyne</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
The firefight is the great set-piece of American fire management.  It seems so obvious: Control the bad fires before you introduce good ones.  Seize the battlefield.  The drama is overpowering, a moral equivalent of war; exciting, potentially lethal, inextinguishably telegenic.  For some seven decades the U.S. threw everything it had into the fight against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Pyne: Let it burn</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/132/steve-pyne-let-it-burn</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pyne</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2005 the USGS published a map of large fires (burns over 100 acres) from 1980-2005. It overlays with eerie fidelity the cartography of the public estate, or in the Great Plains with mixed landscapes of extensive grazing and public lands. In brief, America has extensive wildland fires because it has extensive wildlands.
What are the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Pyne: From Fire to ICE</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/125/steve-pyne-from-fire-to-ice</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pyne</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[carbon neutral]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When the fire community contemplates global warming, most know what it means. It means more fires, more big fires, more damaging fires, fires in places that have few now, and megafires everywhere. It means or should mean more engines and air tankers, more hotshots and fire teams, more funding, more prophylactic prescribed burns, more research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rocky Barker: The paradox of fire policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pyne</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last week the Idaho Statesman has run a three part series written by reporter Heath Druzin and I about the paradox of fire policy.
Based on the research of Forest Service fire behavior expert Jack Cohen we showed that fire does not burn into communities as a ball of fire but almost always as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Pyne: A Retrospective - Yellowstone 20 Years Later</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pyne</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When did the modern era in fire management begin? For much of the American public it began in the summer of 1988 when flames soared through Yellowstone day after day on their TV. The message broadcast by the fire community was that fire was a natural force of great majesty, that fire belonged in Yellowstone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rocky Barker: New look at federal fire policy</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/110/rocky-barker-fire-series-grew-out-of-environmental-history-conference</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pyne</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Heath Druzin (Idaho Statesman State Government Reporter) and I have spent much of the spring and summer gathering together  a new look at the federal fire policy .
It began during a conference of the American Society of Environmental History in March here in Boise. Jack Cohen, the Forest Service&#8217;s top expert on how fire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rocky Barker: Folk fire and forest history</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/102/rocky-barker-folk-fire-and-forest-history</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pyne</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig, long one of the timber industry&#8217;s biggest supporters has always had a novel alternative history of forest management in the West.
In Sen. Craig&#8217;s narrative we had sound forest management in western forests from the time the Weyerhaeuser&#8217;s cut down the first growth of trees and the Forest Service put out [...]]]></description>
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