Peeling Back The Bark
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The Continuing Odyssey of “The Forest Fire” Painting
By James Lewis on September 13, 2017The saga of how one of the most famous paintings of a forest fire was created and what happened to it resembles at times an international spy thriller. An article in Forest History Today (“Untamed Art,” Fall 2008) by …
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Newly revised edition of "America’s Fires" now available
By James Lewis on May 17, 2010My Google news home page has a “Forest Service” section, which captures any article that has that phrase in it. Usually the article is about the U.S. Forest Service but it will also grab items about state or other national …
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Historian Stephen J. Pyne on the Australian Fires
By Guest Contributor on February 10, 2009We’ve asked Stephen Pyne, an environmental historian who has written about fire around the world, to offer his thoughts on the bushfires in Australia. As of this publication date, an area roughly the size of Rhode Island had burned and …
