Few things in the American West feel more omnipresent than the threat of wildfire. These four essential books—and a podcast—explain why
in the American West feel more omnipresent than the threat of wildfire in summer and autumn. Highway signs inform passers-by of daily changes in the degree of fire risk. Law-enforcement officials urge neighbourhood pyromaniacs to be careful when setting off fireworks each Fourth of July, lest one spark an uncontrollable blaze. Smoke dirties the air and, sometimes, gives the sky an apocalyptic orange glow. Wildfires are a natural part of the landscape in the West.
It is hard to understand wildfires in the western states without first learning about the arid nature of the region. There remains no better book on water in the West than Marc Reisner’s “Cadillac Desert”, from 1986. It is a sprawling history of how the Bureau of Reclamation made the modern West possible by erecting a vast network of dams, reservoirs and pipelines to carry water from wet places to dry ones.
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