The State of Fire

Introduction Searching for Nature in the Anthropocene: Spring in Whiskeytown Map—Carr Fire and Whiskeytown National Recreation Area Map—California Counties Map—National Forests in California Map—California's Major Watersheds Part One: Fire History Endemic/Indigenous Pyrosymbiosis: The evolution of fire in California Pyrodiversity and Biodiversity: Resiliency and postfire ecological response A Tragedy of Misconceptions: When the wilderness is not wild Cultural Fire on the Land: Traditional ecological knowledge Colonial Conflagration: Genocide and ecocide The Coming of Modern Megafire: Why and how now is different The Century of Reset and Reckoning: California fire in the twenty-first century Map—North Coast and Klamath Regions Map—Bay Area and Sonoma-Berryessa Regions Map—Central Coast Region Map—Santa Barbara Coast and Mountain Region Map—South Coast Region with Transverse and Peninsula Ranges Map—California's Southeastern Deserts Map—Southern Sierra Nevada Map—Northern Sierra Nevada Map—Northeast Region and Cascade Ranges Part Two: Fire Ecology Cascading Patterns and Emergence: The (new) ecology of fire Succession and conversion: Fire's ecological energy release Patterns of vulnerability and resilience: Bioregional Fire Ecology —North Coast and North Coast Ranges Bioregion —Klamath Mountain Bioregion —Southern Cascades Bioregion —Northeastern Plateaus Bioregion —Sierra Nevada Bioregion —Central Valley Bioregion —South Coast Bioregion —Southern Eastern Deserts Bioregion Abundance and variation: How fire affects animals Dependency and enhancement: How fire affects plants Part Three: Fire Principles World on Fire: California climate breakdown by the numbers Fire Is the Hunter: Human culpability, fire threat, and fire design A Policy of Prescription: Opportunities and challenges in normalizing wildland fire Repair, Restore, and Reciprocate: A vision of California in the balance Between Tradition and Innovation: A better story for fire Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography About the Author