by Timothy Egan
The Big Burn by Timothy Egan was a required text for my environmental politics class. What I liked about this book was that it gave an insight to the creation of the National Parks, and before I read this book I thought the National Parks were one of the easiest policies to put into place. Not at al...
Should be Gifford Pinchot instead of TR. Another great book by Timothy Egan. Great history, great insight, great research. Well done!
Over the long term, greed was the winner of this battle. Some things never change. We could use another Teddy Roosevelt here in the 21st century. Progressive, outspoken, tenacious, and so gifted with words. This book is a lot more about politics than it is about The Big Burn. I agree with anoth...
UPDATED July 5, 2012 - sees link at bottomIn 1910, the US Forestry Service was in its infancy. Teddy Roosevelt had put Gifford Pinchot in charge of the foundling agency. But robber barons and local commercial interests used all their resources to try to smother the infant in its crib, using their co...
Wow. A particularly meaningful read for me, as I have spent time exploring some of the areas where this fire took place. From page 221, "The bare facts were that the blowup covered 2.6 million acres of national forest land, and another 521,184 acres of private or state timber, for a total of just un...
There are many things in this book that should be part of general knowledge of history, like how the national forests were created, how the role of the forest service began, what type of person Gifford Pinchot was, and the life and character of Theodore Roosevelt. There were so many characters in Th...
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