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Prometheus unbound: although it's human to fear fire, recent catastrophic wildfires have freed us to embrace the flame
| Author: |
Wilkinson, T. |
| Date: |
2001 |
| Periodical: |
Nature Conservancy |
| Abstract: |
There are few landscapes in America that have never been touched or shaped by fire. The flame has been a ubiquitous Promethean life force-a mythological gift from the gods-painting with a black palette so that the natural canvas around us can be green. But last summer as thousands of conflagrations swept across western forests and grasslands, as homes burned and smoke drifted like a murky omen far downwind, people residing in the ancient pathways of fire were given a glimpse not only of their primordial past but of the impending future. |
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