Book Audiobook 2020
The Big Burn
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- Publisher
- HMH Audio
- Published
- 2020
- Nature conservation
- Conservationists
- Presidents
- United States
- Forest fires
- Forest conservation
- National parks and reserves
- Biography
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 the fires of today.