Prologue: Dark Days
A Song of Ice and Fire
and Ice
Where the Past Is the Key to the Present
Fire's Keystone State
Bog and Burn: The New Jersey Pinelands
Fire on the Mountain
Albany Pine Bush
Where You Find It: Staten Island
The Forest as Garden: Charles Sprague Sargent
Pitch Pine and Least Tern
The WUI Within
The View from Bill Patterson's Study
Maine's Epicycles of Fire
Collective security: the Northeast Forest Fire protection Compact
Westward, the course of empire
Epilogue: The Northeast between two fires.