Nancy Regan’s Reviews > When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World > Status Update

"...Smokey Bear, the historic, macho symbol of fire suppression under American rule, was retiring. Tribal women, she said, were stepping up to take his place."

"The era of fire suppression did not begin as a war on fire per se, but as a war against any life that could exist apart from modern capitalism".

[Indigenous people of the Sierra Nevada mountains] "typically avoided sedentary agriculture not because they were unaware of the practice...but because agriculture would have been less efficient. By tending the land with flames, they were able to support some of the highest populations in the Americas".