Ignacio Villaverde (@wildlandfirefig.bsky.social)

In the 1890s, Gifford Pinchot — often hailed as America's first serious forest conservationist — went on a quest to make forests that could be tightly controlled. In doing so, Marin Scotten writes, he helped birth both the American suburb and a new age of wildfires. New, on Heat Death!

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The Suburbs Sprawl on a Grave of Wildfire How the crusade against nature made — and perhaps doomed — American development. https://heat-death.ghost.io/the-suburbs-sprawl-on-s-grave-of-wildfire/