The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America /

• Main Author: Egan, Timothy (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
• Subjects: Roosevelt, Theodore > 1858-1919.; Pinchot, Gifford > 1865-1946.; Δασική διαχειριστική > Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής > Ιστορία.; Εθνικά πάρκα και δρυμοί > Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής > Ιστορία.

Narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire of August, 1910, and Teddy Roosevelt's pioneering conservation efforts that helped turn public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service with consequences felt in...