Big Burn: The Northwest's Forest Fire of 1910 - Softcover

Miller, Don; Cohen, Stan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0933126042 ISBN 13: 9780933126046

Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 1978

Synopsis

A good case could be made for predicting a calamitous forest fire that would ravage the relatively unscathed, lush timber stands of the Northwest. Some people shrugged and lamented that one could never predict much of the future. But regardless of what people thought, 1910 was to be the year of what some termed the "big blowup" of the "big burn," or the "time when the mountains roared."

A series of 1,736 fires ravaged three million acres and killed eighty-five people. With abnormally low amounts of precipitation and soaring high temperatures, disaster threatened imminently, and the undermanned, underequipped national forest service did not help the situation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Co.
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0933126042
• ISBN 13: 9780933126046
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224