Introduction: Searching for nature in the Anthropocene: spring in Whiskeytown
Endemic / indigenous pyrosymbiosis: the evolution of fire in California
Pyrodiversity and biodiversity: resiliency and postfire ecological response
A tragedy of misconceptions: when the wilderness is not wild
Cultural fire on the land: traditional ecological knowledge
Colonial conflagration: genocide and ecocide
The coming of modern megafire: why and how now is different
The century of reset and reckoning: California fire in the twenty-first century
Cascading patterns of emergence: the (new) ecology of fire
Succession and conversion: fire's ecological energy release
Patterns of vulnerability and resilience: bioregional fire ecology
Abundance and variation: how fire affects animals
Dependency and enhancement: how fire affects plants
Part three: Fire principles
World on fire: California climate breakdown by the numbers
Fire is the hunter: Human culpability, fire threat, and fire design
A policy of prescription: opportunities and challenges in normalizing wildland fire
Repair, restore, and reciprocate: a vision of California in balance
Between tradition and innovation: a better story of fire
