Have you ever wondered what those government sponsered scientific documents mean? Gail has read many and synthesized some so that a reader can understand what they say. Have you ever wondered about practices like "Structure Based Management" or "Managed Growth" and why anyone would be interested them? Or what they mean to you, a person who cares about forest practices. The author of this book has a heart that loves hiking in rich forest and a soul that came out of a logging family in the heart of logging country, Coos Bay, Oregon. Do you want to know what foresters, government experts, ecologists, scientists, and planners are planning? The work they are attempting in the Tillamook will be replicated into other areas if successful.

This is one of the best choices I made in books. It's about a 13 year old named Storie who lives at Blue Star Camp. A fire is burning the woods down, but for a long time she and her family think it's so far from them that it doesn't matter. Of course, it soon comes dangerously close to them, and everyone must leave. Storie's father is required to try to fight the fire with the other men, but she is terrified about this and ventures out to save him. In the end, she escapes and tells her grandchildren about the natural disaster that happened to her as a kid. It's very exciting, fast-paced, touching, and just an overall great book. Yes, I highly recommend "Fire on the Wind."

The book Fire on the Wind by Linda Crew is a great book and very hard to put down. It has many thrilling and gripping scenes. No one could have written better historical-fiction about the real Tillamook Burn in Oregon in 1933 that burned over 200 acres of forest. It almost seems as if the characters are real. While reading, I almost feel like I'm actually there, like I'm part of the story. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to read a good well-written historical-fiction book.

It was like a window into life in a logging camp in the 30's during the Tillamook burn. It was interesting to see how much society has changed in the last 6 decades. I would recommend this book to any one!

Tillamook Burn is a series of poems and short prose pieces centering around the childhood and adolescence of Albert Drake, who grew up in the Pacific Northwest during the 1930s and 1940s, and offers a series of vignettes that are not highly detailed but are highly evocative, calling forth images of faded sepia-tone photos of times and places long past. Themes include his memories of his father, the Second World War, and studies of the forgotten characters of the period, and ultimately Drake uses these images to paint a transition between his boyhood view of his father to his eventually becoming similar in many ways to his father. I first read this in the back of a '64 Ford traveling east from Michigan in 1980, and have a copy from which I still quote.

Tillamook Burn is probably most worth hunting down of all of Drake's small books of poetry and prose. There aren't many middle-aged guys who won't understand "Hearing Marty Robbins Sing White Sport Coat 20 Years Later," and the pieces about Drake's father run in and out of this and his other books. Sadly, nowadays he's mostly known only for his hot-rod nonfiction books and articles, but these earlier books are worth finding, too.

This title contains a wealth of knowledge about the tillamook burn as well as some stories about people caught in the burn. It covers each of the burns and has a lot of information about the reforestation efforts made by many people. It failed to give information about a so called "lost steam engine' wich we were trying to locate in the burn area. Other than the lack of detailed information about equitment lost in the fire it has more genral information than most books on the subject. This book would be a best buy for someone looking for general information on the burn. If someone has imformation about the "lost steam engine" in the woods please e-mail me.

I could not put this book down after I started it If you enjoy the outdoor and the forests then this is a must for you.