Wildfire Bibliography
The McCracken Research Library at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West suggests the following bibliography for further reading on wildfires and forest fires.
Books held in the McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Center of the West:
The ’88 Fires: Yellowstone and Beyond, Conference Proceedings. International Association of Wildland Fire. Misc. publication no. 16. Tall Timbers Research Station, 2009.
Arno, Stephen F. Flames in our Forest: Disaster or Renewal? Island Press, 2002.
Barker, Rocky. Scorched Earth: How the Fires of Yellowstone Changed America. Island Press, 2005.
Beil, Karen Magnuson. Fire in Their Eyes: Wildfires and the People Who Fight Them. First edition, Harcourt Brace, 1999.
The Ecological Implications of Fire in Greater Yellowstone: Proceedings of the Second Biennial Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, September 19-21, 1993, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. International Association of Wildland Fire, 1996.
Egan, Timothy. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
Franke, Mary Ann. Yellowstone in the Afterglow: Lessons from the Fires. Yellowstone Center for Resources, Yellowstone National Park, 2000.
Henry, Jeff. The Year Yellowstone Burned: A Twenty-Five-Year Perspective. Taylor Trade Publishing, 2015.
Kennedy, Roger G. Wildfire and Americans: How to Save Lives, Property, and Your Tax Dollars. First edition, Hill and Wang, 2006.
Matthews, Mark. A Great Day to Fight Fire: Mann Gulch, 1949. University of Oklahoma Press, 2009.
McCulloh, Douglas. Facing Fire: Art, Wildfire, and the End of Nature in the New West. UCR ARTS, California Museum of Photography, Inlandia Institute, 2020.
Metcalf, William. Fireghosts. George F. Thompson Publishing, 2019.
Nabhan, Gary. Woodlands in Crisis: A Legacy of Lost Biodiversity on the Colorado Plateau. Ralph M. Bilby Research Center, Northern Arizona University, 2004.
Pyne, Stephen J. Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire. University of Washington Press, 1997 [orig. Princeton University Press, 1982].
_________. Tending Fire: Coping with America’s Wildland Fires. Island Press, 2004.
_________. The Northern Rockies: A Fire Survey. University of Arizona Press, 2016.
- This is part of a multi-volume series: To the Last Smoke, on North American wildfires.
_________. Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910. Viking, 2001.
Reinhart, Karen Wildung. Yellowstone’s Rebirth by Fire: Rising from the Ashes of the 1988 Wildfires. Farcountry Press, 2008.
Strohmaier, David J. Drift Smoke: Loss and Renewal in a Land of Fire. University of Nevada Press, 2005.
True, Alianor. Wildfire: A Reader. Island Press, 2001.
United States. Forest Service. Northern Region. When the Mountains Roared: Stories of the 1910 Fires. USDA, Forest Service, 2010.
Vale, Thomas R. Fire, Native Peoples, and the Natural Landscape. Island Press, 2002.
Wallace, Linda. After the Fires: The Ecology of Change in Yellowstone National Park. Yale University Press, 2004.
Wuerthner, George. Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy. Foundation for Deep Ecology by arrangement with Island Press, 2006.
Online Sources:
U.S. government website with current fire news.
National Park Service fire historical bibliography.
Bibliovault, 26 book titles about wildfires internationally.
Tall Timbers, includes articles on fire management practices.
National Wildfire Coordinating Group, National Wildland Fire Leadership Development Program website.
October 2024/Nathan E. Bender, McCracken Research Library
