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Between Two Fires: A Fire History of Contemporary America . By Stephen J. Pyne. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2015. vii + 541 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $29.95, paper.) In 1982 Stephen J. Pyne published Fire in America , a book that served notice that the history of wildfire was a topic worthy of consideration, and that the topic had found its author. Pyne, an elite wildland firefighter for fifteen seasons, understood fire in ways that no archival research could impart. Fire in America launched Pyne’s career and sent him on a journey, both figurative and literal, across the globe. Since then, he has published a suite of histories of fire around the world and now returns his attention to the United … James.lewis{at}foresthistory.org

The federal forest service, originating in 1899, began with Elihu Stewart as the chief inspector of timber and forestry and the title of Superintendent of Forestry; it grew to become the Dominion Forestry Branch. Until 1930 the main federal forest lands were in the western provinces where major agricultural settlement was taking place and the main priorities were fire protection and tree planting. In 1924, E.H. Finlayson a 1912 graduate in forestry became the first Dominion Forester; he was succeeded by D. Roy Cameron as the second Dominion Forester and when he left in 1947 Donald Angus Macdonald became the third and last Dominion Forester until his retirement in 1956. Macdonald’s career bridged the early period of the federal forestry branch’s activities of forest management and protection and into the post 1930s when the priorities were on research and the establishment of experimental forests. Following World War II Macdonald was instrumental in the crafting of the Canada Forestry Act of 1949, which led to the implementation of major provincial forestry activities such as forest inventories, regeneration and forest protection. It was followed by a succession of federal–provincial agreements, which have left an underpinning for forestry across the nation.

This article reports on a study exploring Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and a preservation model (Multiple Description Coding Compression [MDC2]) for addressing YouTube's multiple variant and preservation challenges. A sample included 20 YouTube segments: 10 connected with US astronaut Neil Armstrong's first step on the moon, and 10 with the 1966 classic movie, Batman: The Movie. The FRBR analysis used a qualitative content analysis, and the MDC2 exploration used protocol modeling. Results indicate that FRBR is applicable to YouTube, although the FRBR analyses required localization of the Work, Expression, Manifestation, and Item entities. The MDC2 exploration illustrates an approach for exploring FRBR in the context of other models.

List of IllustrationsForeword by William CrononPreface to the 1997 Paperback EditionPreface to the Original Edition: History with Fire in its eyeAbbreviationsPrologue: The Smoke of TImeNature's FireThe Fire from AsiaThe Fire from EuropeThe Great BarbecueThe Heroic AgeA Continental ExperimentThe Cold War on FireFields of FireEpilogue: The Forbidden FlameBibliographic AbbreviationsNotesBibliographic EssayIndex

Journal Article Nature's Yellowstone. By Richard A. Bartlett. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1974. xiii + 250 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, essay on sources, and index. $10.00.) Get access Richard C. Davis Richard C. Davis Forest History Society Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue 2, September 1975, Pages 411–412, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903305 Published: 01 September 1975