Smokey The Bear

On the first episode of California Burning, we explore the history of the U.S. Forestry Department and how a series of unprecedented wildfires in the early twentieth century led to our current forest management policies that have made our forests ripe for the catastrophic wildfires we’re seeing in the West today. Forest historians Steven Pyne and Char Miller tell the story.

On the first episode of California Burning, we explore the history of the U.S. Forestry Department and how a series of unprecedented wildfires in the early twentieth century led to our current forest management policies that have made our forests ripe for the catastrophic wildfires we’re seeing in the West today. Forest historians Steven Pyne and Char Miller tell the story.