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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / School & Education; Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / General; Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / General; ... Read more

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EDUCATION / NATURE / LIFE SCIENCE. A science-based, K-12 curriculum covering topics in conservation biology and relevant environmental issues while incorporating activities usable in other disciplines. Science objectives are carefully designed to align with the National Science Education Standards.

Includes 12 units: Basic Needs of Plants and Animals; Impacts of Humans on the Environment; Life Cycles and the Environment; Basic Ecology Concepts; Physical and Behavioral Adaptations; Organisms Adapt to a Constantly Changing Environment; Factors That Affect Distribution and Abundance of Organisms; Biodiversity and Human-Caused Extinctions; Conservation and Conservation Biology As a Science; Population Biology; Resource Management; and Environmental Legislation.

Each unit has grade levels, objectives, pretests, vocabulary lists, background information, time estimates, materials, preparations, procedures, discussions, activities, reproducible masters for classroom use, post tests, and cited sources.

Glossary included with seven appendices: Explanations of Basic Ecology Terminology; In-depth Information about Adaptations; Good Background Information about Biodiversity and Extinction; In-depth Information about Invasive Species with a two-page overview of how to pull noxious weeds; Information about Conservation Pioneers; Two Versions of an Environmental Pledge Certificate; a List of Resources and URLs of Agencies and Non-Profit Conservation Organizations.

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 495 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 504 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Three teenagers battle the flames of the Big Burn of 1910, one of the century's biggest wildfires that altered the face of Montana and Idaho and changed the way we fight wildfires.Amazon.com Review
"Out there in the distance, the pink spread from sky to ground, became a pink-and-red-and-bronze mass of color billowing up in the southwest and running toward him. Sticks appeared to be tumbling through the air before it. Then Jarrett realized they were too far away to be sticks. My god, he thought, those are trees."

Wildfires were a terrifying experience 100 years ago, and they have become equally terrifying to many Americans in recent drought years. The Big Burn is based on the true story of one of the worst wildfires of the century, a conflagration that destroyed 2.5 million acres of public land and killed 90 people. In the hot, dry summer of 1910, hundreds of small fires were burning all over Montana and the Idaho panhandle, lit by dry thunderstorms, sparks from trains, untended campfires. On August 20, a blowup began as the many blazes, pushed by wind, raced up the slopes until they joined to ignite a crown fire that roared across treetops, creating its own wind in a mighty inferno.

This novel tells the story of three pairs of young people in the fire's path: Ranger Samuel Logan and his 16-year-old brother Jarrett, who yearns to fight this fiery monster; Lizbeth, who loves the forest, and her aunt Celia, who wants only to profit from it; and two African American soldiers, honorable Seth and his shifty sidekick, Abel. The way their lives interlock with the fire and each other, and the "field notes" that document the course of the blaze make up a thrilling novel with much authenticity for the place and time and for the nature of wildfire itself. (Ages 10 to 14) --Patty Campbell ... Read more

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1910 forest fire book review.
A delightful read designed for teens and young adults, but at 76 years of age I thoroughly enjoyed it. I was surprised at the accuracy of the 1910 fire event, the culture of the time and place and the account of the early day Forest Service. As a third generation Forest Service retiree and having worked on the Coeur d'Alene National forest and the Wallace District, I personally knew some of the people who lived in Wallace during the time.I recommend it.

Richie's Picks: THE BIG BURN
THE BIG BURN is a fascinating and harrowing historic novel set in the midst of a forest fire that trashed Northern Idaho and Western Montana in 1910. It was a large forest fire. "How large?" you may ask. Okay--If there are 640 acres in a square mile and there were nearly three million acres affected by THE BIG BURN, then we're talking an area nearly 4700 square miles. Sonoma County, where I live, is one-third that size. If you consider the San Francisco Bay Area counties of Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco, Marin, AND Sonoma together, then you've got a sense of the scale of the destruction. For those of you on the East Coast, we're talking Long Island, plus all of New York's boroughs, and the counties of Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Orange, Dutchess, and Columbia.

"Field Notes: In the summer of 1910, rangers who were used to working in isolation suddenly found their forests filling with strangers. With new fires breaking out daily through July and older ones stubbornly resisting control, the Forest Service's District One had no choice but to hire more and more men to fight them.By the end of the month, there were almost three thousand firefighters scattered across the district's several forests...W.B. Greeley, would later write, 'It was a case of hiring anyone we could get.We cleaned out Skid Road in Spokane and Butte.A lot of temporaries were bums and hobos.In a bad fire year, the temporary is the weakest link in the chain'...They went into the burning forests wearing the clothes they'd been recruited in, and the ones wearing street shoes or snug wool suits would regret that.They worked for twenty-five cents an hour with board, thirty if they provided their own food..."

In THE BIG BURN we do meet a few scoundrels.But the main characters here are three young people--Jarrett, a local boy who leaves his harsh dad; Seth, a southern kid in a black regiment who is trying to live up to the memory of his dead father; and Lizbeth, a young woman originally from New England, who is falling in love with the land she's found herself homesteading with her young, widowed aunt.All three cross paths before finding themselves in the midst of Hell on Earth.

Perhaps the publisher is calling this an "ages 12 and up" to spare younger children potential nightmares from the vividly drawn scenes of towering flames bearing down on our heroes.But for any kid whose tastes run to disaster and survival, mixed into a coming of age story, THE BIG BURN is a riveting read.

The Big Burn, G.S.'s Reveiw
Jeanette Ingold has pulled out all stops in her book called The Bug Burn.In this exciting tale of Idaho's wildfires in 1910, three young adults battle the forces of nature.Seth, Jaret, and Lizbeth each fight life in their own way, and overcome personal obstacles.Seth is an African American trying to fit-in in the army.Jaret is a rebel son as he goes looking for a job in firefighting after he got fired from his railroad job.Lizbeth is a niece who is trying to convince her aunt not to sell their homestead.I like this book because it is full of action and adventure, but educational at the same time. I would give it five out of five stars because I had a fun time reading it and learned a lot from it.I can't tell you the ending, but I can give you a little sneak peek.The strong wind blows many fires together, creating a giant blaze.That blaze charges forward, burning everything in its path.Eventually it comes to a city named Wallace, and everyone has to work together to try to stop it.Do they succeed?Read the book, The Big Burn, to find out.

The Big Burn
I think that The Big Burn was a very precice and educational book.The main carachters were Jarett, a young man wanting to fight fires with his older brother; Seth, An afircan American young man trying to show his pride for his country by joining the army; and Lizbeth, a young women trying to stay and keep her aunt from selling their home.The setting is 1910's, in Idaho and Montana.They over come some goals, and others are crushed.This all adds up untill the climax were all the flames come together and

THE BIG BURN is a great choice.
In light of the recent wildfires in Colorado and Arizona, THE BIG BURN is an interesting book, but it would certainly be noteworthy under any circumstances. The story follows two young men and a young woman as they encounter and combat the infamously ferocious Montana wildfires of 1910. Jeanette Ingold deftly switches perspectives throughout the tale to keep the reader interested in this well-crafted historical novel.

Jarrett, the brother of a forest ranger, is on a quest to prove himself to his gruff father; Lizbeth, living with her widowed aunt, wants to preserve her adopted Western home; and Seth, a young black soldier, is dedicated to serving his country and overcoming racial prejudice. Apart and together, they transcend traditional teenage roles and attempt to save their homes from the fires that ravaged the Montana and Idaho wilderness during the summer of 1910. Some of the plot developments may seem cliché (romance blooms where you'd probably expect --- close calls end with last-second rescues, etc.), but overall the adventure is unlike any other book available. This overlooked event in US history provides a wealth of excitement for a talented writer. The parallel stories of the three protagonists allow for several viewpoints of every episode; Ingold paints a comprehensive portrait of the true historical events of the period.

Ingold intersperses the chapters with "field notes" chronicling the wildfires and wilderness firefighting from an objective standpoint. These sections are actually where she writes best and they are a testament to the thorough research that went into writing the book. Both historically accurate and dramatically engaging, THE BIG BURN is a great choice for anyone who is interested in learning about the phenomena of forest fires while also reading a great story.

--- Reviewed by Lowell Putnam
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In his senior year at Idaho's Pineville High School, Jake finds himself in charge of six other teenagers who must board at the tacky Scenic-Vu Motel, since they live too far from town to commute from their homes to school every day. ... Read more

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Published 20 years ago, still a great read
I read this book over ten years ago, when I was in middle school, and I loved it. The journal format is particularly appealing to young readers, and the narrator has a very likable voice: responsible, smart, good-humored and just a bit sarcastic. It doesn't feel dated, either, probably because it takes place in a small town in Idaho rather than in a big city. I saw this book last year at a library sale and was thrilled to own it again.

One or my favorites! Full of fun Flavor!
I have read this book more than once and highly reccomend it to anyone hungry for a refreshing book! It's written with great taste and will truly make you laugh out loud. The experinces are real and you can easily picture them in your mind. The main character is like your brother or like a friend the whole way threw. It's like a good buddy telling you of his experinces. It easy to read and a whole lot of fun ... Read more

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Wowsa, what a read!
What is truly terrifying about this book isn't the vivid and eerily symbolic imagery, the perfectly timed revelation of frightening character details and history or the brisk but agonizing pace at which truth is revealed. No. What is truly terrifying is how Davis brings the reader close enough to the monster that he or she, if willing to admit, is even more than disturbingly sympathetic. Sympathy, one can justify. To sympathize is to remain on a level above. But to *identify* with the monster? Even if only during the moments of self-restraint? Now that is truly terrifying.

I Kept Waiting...
I kept waiting for this story to pick up. The first third of the book is painfully boring. The author goes on and on "descriptively" saying nothing. It does pick up considerably as the book gets into the later sections, but by then it's almost too late. There is no rhyme nor reason as to why the husband demonstrates such violence, and the passages about the snakes, while educational, don't really have much bite (pun intended). While definitely not the worst book I have ever read, I was glad to finish this book so I could move on to something more interesting. My mom read "Season of the Snake" before giving it to me and she felt the same way. Two sideways thumbs from both of us.

Beautifully Crafted!
Having read "Winter Range" and found it lacking, I only read "Season of the Snake" on the recommendation of a family member.I was thrilled by it!!Her previously dark writing has found real focus and structure."Season of the Snake" does a great job getting you to care about the characters, and although you may think you know where it is going... it either takes you there in such a unique fashion, or twists how far and where it goes... that the whole ride is a joy.Truly got under my skin and sucked me in.Great Book!

Creepy, but kept me guessing.
The novel had a slow, somewhat unfocused start, but I kept with it, and ultimately was rewarded with an entertaining, if sometimes uncomfortable, experience. Some graphic scenes were a bit much for me, as it was clear early on the husband was a monster. The love-hate relationship between the sisters gave the story depth and dimension, and the prose describing the surrounding Snake River/Palouse scenery was exquisite. Overall, a fulfilling read with an ending that still leaves you squirming in your seat a bit.

Terrific read!
Last night I stayed up too late finishing Claire Davis' "Season of the Snake," it was that good. There was no way I was going to sleep until I found out what happened. Exquisitely creepy, enthralling novel set in Idaho and Eastern Washington State with the Snake River playing a part. The life and times of a herpetologist, her husband and her problematic sister. Perfection. Can't wait to see what Davis gives us next. ... Read more