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rockybarker.com is the virtual manifestation of Rocky Barker
author of Scorched
Earth: How the Fires of Yellowstone Changed America. The Washington
Post says Scorched Earth, "conveys a powerful lesson about how
Americans have sought to manage the "cataclysmic forces" of forest
fires." Rocky talks about the 1988 fires and fires last year. The
story has inspired a television movie, Firestorm:
Last Stand at Yellowstone that ran on A&E Network starring Scott
Foley and Richard Burgi and co-produced by Rocky.
Rocky, the environmental writer for the Idaho Statesman has a blog called Letters from the West in Boise. Bill
Moyers, included ’
Rocky in his PBS program "Is God Green?"
 Rocky used to live in Wisconsin.
Check out the pictures of the sinking
house on Lake Superior.
Read his take on media bias in from the Wallace
Stegner Report of the IJNR. "When you care about
education,you’re not accused of being pro-education or pro-children.
But when you care about the environment, you become a lightning rod."
Read about his unique Rockyboxes in in Sierra Magazine.
He writes about trout and salmon in the Fly
Fisher's Guide to Idaho. 
Greater Yellowstone
is one of his passions and covered the The
1988 Fires .
In Writers
on the Range, Rocky talks about wolves in the West.
Read an excerpt of Scorched Earth published in Forest Magazine
or read Todd Wilkinson's review at New West.
For more information on rockybarker.com, or to comment on this page write,
call, or e-mail Rocky at: Rocky Barker, 2875 Harmony, Boise, ID 83706 1-(208)-363-0259 rbarker@rockybarker.com
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