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Science 13 October 2006:
Vol. 314. no. 5797, p. 256
DOI: 10.1126/science.1133695
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ECOLOGY:
Fighting Fire with Common Sense

Ted Steinberg

Wildfire
A Century of Failed Forest Policy
George Wuerthner, Ed.
Foundation for Deep Ecology, Sausalito, CA, in association with Island Press, Washington, DC, 2006. 352 pp. $75. ISBN 1-59726-069-X. Paper, $45. ISBN 1-59726-070-3.
The contributors to the large-format, photo-rich volume discuss the ecology of fire landscapes of the western United States along with the effects of the policies and practices of fire suppression, prescribed burns, salvage logging, and land-use planning.
The reviewer is at the Department of History and School of Law, Case Western University, 11201 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-7107, USA. E-mail: theodore.steinberg{at}case.edu

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