Los Alamos wildfires
by Nichol Bryan
- Milwaukee, WI : World Almanac Library, 2004.
- 48 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
- Environmental disasters .
Introduction: Fire storm -- Fighting fire with fire -- Begging to burn -- "It should never have happened" -- Learning to live with fire -- Time line -- Glossary -- For more information/Web sites -- Index.
Describes the events surrounding the wildfire that raged in New Mexico in 2000 and the resulting debate over the policy of prescribed burning, or purposely setting fires as a means of forest management.
10 - 12 years
0836855078 0836855140 (softcover)
2003053536
Wildfires--New Mexico--Los Alamos Region Prescribed burning--New Mexico--Los Alamos Region Wildfires--New Mexico. Prescribed burning. Forest fires. Fires--Los Alamos Region (N.M.)