Cover Page -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- A NOTE ON METHODS -- CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION -- A CATASTROPHIC SITUATION -- ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK -- CHAPTER TWO THE SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF WILDFIRE -- NATURAL? DISASTER? -- THE FALL OF WESTERN FIRE -- SMOKEY AND ALL THAT: HOW THE USFS PUT(S) OUT FIRES -- Declaration and Escalation of War -- Détente? -- ECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS -- RESURGENT FIRE? -- THREATS, DEVASTATION, AND DANGEROUS PLANS: THE (RE-)POLITICIZATION OF FIRE -- CHAPTER THREE FORESTER-KINGS? Fire Suppression and the State -- STATE-CENTERED THEORY: A BRIEF REVIEW -- THE FIRE NARRATIVE: STATE-CENTERED COMMITMENTS -- Extreme State Autonomy -- The State's Interests: Conservation, Efficiency, and the Domination of Nature -- State Resources and Capacity -- UNANSWERED QUESTIONS IN THE NARRATIVE OF FIRE -- CHAPTER FOUR MANAGING IN THE WAKE OF THE AX -- PROFIT: THE ENDS OF (AND MEANS TO) US FORESTRY -- "A Letter to Foresters" -- "Will It Pay?" -- Fire and Taxes: The Limits of Legitimate Government -- THE GENESIS OF FIRE PROTECTION: CONFLICT OR COOPERATION? -- Myth of the Bully State: Fire Exclusion as a Capitalist Project -- Crisis Management: The Struggle to Avert "Timber Famine" -- COOPERATION VS. REGULATION: THE BUILDUP TO CLARKE-MCNARY -- Regulatory Threat -- Fire Suppression as Forestry? Greeley and Pinchot Agree to Disagree -- Capper and Snell -- REGULATION REDUX -- Strong Diagnoses, Weak Prescriptions, and Soured Relations -- "A Splendid Opportunity": The Joint Congressional Committee on Forestry -- CHAPTER FIVE OUT OF THE FRYING PAN Catastrophic Fire as a "Crisis of Crisis Management" -- FIRE EXCLUSION AS METABOLIC RIFT -- CONTRADICTIONS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL STATE -- CHAPTER SIX THE WEIGHT OF PAST WEAKNESS Prospects for Ecological Modernization in Fire Management.

WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT: ECOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION IN ACTION? -- Budgetary Indicators -- Haunting Successes of Propaganda: Public Resistance to Fire -- Sparking Tinder in the Rain: Fire Reintroduction in the Pacific Northwest -- CHAPTER SEVEN CONCLUSION The Chronic Parolee -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 2: THE SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF WILDFIRE -- CHAPTER 3: FORESTER-KINGS? FIRE SUPPRESSION AND THE STATE -- CHAPTER 4: MANAGING IN THE WAKE OF THE AX -- CHAPTER 5: OUT OF THE FRYING PAN: CATASTROPHIC FIRE AS A "CRISIS OF CRISIS MANAGEMENT" -- CHAPTER 6: THE WEIGHT OF PAST WEAKNESS: PROSPECTS FOR ECOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION IN FIRE MANAGEMENT -- CHAPTER 7: CONCLUSION: THE CHRONIC PAROLEE -- REFERENCES.