Great insight into a distinctive fire subculture

Same thing has happened on Kaibab Plateau. Beginning in 1996 major burns have encircled the plateau and some sites have reburned. Not all high severity, but burn scars are the most visible feature in satellite imagery - Landsat ca. 1970s and Google Earth (need to add 200,000 acres for 2025).

It *is* a new world. We took stuff from a former world in deep time and released it in our own time to spawn a new world. Wildfires are among the ecological velociraptors that have resulted.

Warms the heart of a pyromantic...

Wildfire in southwestern France - not a new phenomenon, but not a welcome one either. Here's one of several fire paintings by Etienne Mondineu (ca. 1901).

Researching for a fire history of the Kaibab Plateau - my response to the Dragon Bravo fire -I found the jobs and pay for fed firefighters in 1946. You could be a legit flunky (paid more than an unskilled firefighter). Glad to see smokechasing as a distinctive category. Highest paid? Head cook.

Before GIS there were fire atlases - all analogue, with printed topo maps, data entered with heavy colored pencils, hard bound in canvas. Here's one from the Kaibab National Forest that was rescued, scorched, from a fire in the supervisor's officer. A fire(d) atlas?