See Tania Schoennagel, Jennifer K. Balch, et al. “Adapt to More Wildfire in Western North American Forests as Climate Changes,” PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) 114 (May 2, 2017): 4582–4590.
Edward Struzik, Firestorm: How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future (Washington DC: Island Press, 2017), 5.
Struzik, 15.
Nigel Clark and Kathryn Yusoff, “Combustion and Society: A Fire-Centered History of Energy Use,” Theory, Culture, and Society 31 (July 2014): 203–226.
Stephen J. Pyne. America’s Fires: Management of Wildlands and Forests (Durham, North Carolina: Forest History Society, 1997), 14.
This somewhat outdated figure is from Pyne, 1997.
Pyne, 16.
Pyne, 6.
Struzik, 223.
Struzik, 224.
See Kari Norgaard, “The Politics of Fire and the Social Impacts of Fire Exclusion on the Klamath,” Humboldt Journal of Social Relations 36 (2014): 77.
Mike Davis, “The Dialectic of Ordinary Disaster,” in The Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (New York: Metropolitan Books, 1998), 9.
This is essentially Amitav Ghosh’s argument about the temporality of realism and/or Nature within the era of climate change. In Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), 20-21. See also Davis.
Brittny Mejia, Harriet Ryan and Paul Sisson. “’An Unprecedented Loss of Life: The grim toll of Southland fires on animals born to run.” The Los Angeles Times, December 9, 2017, ➝.
Pyne, America’s Fires, 22.
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“Boxcar Fire: Incident Overview,” National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG), June 27, 2018, ➝.
The author thanks Heather Houser for explicitly identifying the genre of this map and for her innovative work on the “infowhelm” in the era of climate change.