A Test of Adversity
and Strength: Wildland Fire in the National Park System
By Hal K. Rothman
The National Park Service’s
mission, unique among federal agencies, has made its
history of fire policy diverge from that of its peers.
Entire Document - 263 pages (3.74
mb) 
Part I: Fight, Control, Exclude:
The Era of Suppression 1872-1967
Introduction and Chapter
1
Cover page, Executive Summary,
Table of Contents, Introduction: The National Parks
and Fire, and Chapter 1: 1872-1916: The Military Era.
Chapter 2
The Development of a Fire Management
Structure.
Chapter 3
A Decade of Transformation:
The New Deal and Fire Policy.
Chapter 4
Ecology and the Limits of Suppression.
Includes photo section.
Part II: Put Fire Back In
. . . But When, Where, and How?
Chapter
5
Allowing Fire in the National
Park System.
Chapter 6
Institutionalizing a Structure
for Fire Management.
Chapter 7
Yellowstone and the Politics
of Disaster.
Chapter 8 and Bibliography
The Hazard of New Fortunes:
Outlet, Cerro Grande,
and the Twenty-First Century. Includes Bibliography
section.
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