Wildland Fire: A Tale of Wolves

Thoughts on Wildfire Management. A Story of the Changing Relationship Among a Family, a Herd of Migratory Animals, and Wolves. A Narrative Closely Aligning with the Domestic Wildfire Experience.

Introduction

A wildfire burning across a landscape is always in the process of becoming (Holland, 1992). Wildfire is a process and no longer a natural one. Wildland fire has been an artificial process since fire was first intentionally used to produce a specific type of landscape. It remains artificial due to the landscapes that have been created, human-caused ignitions, intrusion of the built environment into vegetated areas, prescribed fires and other manipulations of the landscape, and a changing climate.