Colorado Burning
The Waldo Canyon fire reminds us that knowing how to control fire and doing it are quite different, writes Stephen J. Pyne.
Steve Pyne is a historian at Arizona State University, currently writing a fire history of the U.S. since 1960. Just released is a book he co-authored with his daughter, Lydia V. Pyne, The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene.