The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America - Timothy Egan
Language: EnglishKeywords:
Enviroment
History
Natural Disaster
Non-Fiction
Politics
President's
Science
Shared by:Hetaira
Written by
Read by Robertson Dean
Format: MP3
Unabridged
On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying towns and timber in the blink of an eye. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men — college boys, day workers, immigrants from mining camps — to fight the fire. But no living person had seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them.
Egan narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force. Equally dramatic is the larger story he tells of outsized president Teddy Roosevelt and his chief forester, Gifford Pinchot. Pioneering the notion of conservation, Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than create the idea of public land as our national treasure, owned by and preserved for every citizen. The robber barons fought Roosevelt and Pinchot’s rangers, but the Big Burn saved the forests even as it destroyed them: the heroism shown by the rangers turned public opinion permanently in their favor and became the creation myth that drove the Forest Service, with consequences still felt in the way our national lands are protected — or not — today.
Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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This post has 3 comments with rating of 5/5
April 16th, 2015
Just a head’s up. I take forever to upload audiobooks. It can take up to a few days for the file to be completely uploaded into the interwebs.
Our upload rate is set very low, so I can keep it up 24/7 while I kill other players in Tamriel and the other people in my house can watch movies and whatnot.
I enjoy sharing my own collection of audiobooks, but it hurts my feels when people complain that they aren’t being instantly gratified rapidly enough.
I am a sensitive soul.
April 16th, 2015
Tha…. oh wait a min. I think I`ll pass. Would hate to piss you off again. LOL
November 24th, 2018
Hetaira- thanks for sharing! :)
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