Download or read book Blazing Heritage written by Hal Rothman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-12 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National parks played a unique role in the development of wildfire management on American public lands. With a different mission and powerful meaning to the public, the national parks were a psychic battleground for the contests between fire suppression and its use as a management tool. Blazing Heritage tells how the national parks shaped federal fire management.