"the chicago tribune" printer's row festa this one features comic book writer harvey pekar and paul buhlen the late studs terkel's book, working. >>> guy mcpherson is a professor at the university of arizona and author of living with fire. professor mcpherson, is there policy? >> particularly if a lousy enough flexibility for considerable variation how we treat places on the landscape. so, excuse me, yes, we still have policies that are broader but enough to encompass all acres but there has to be enough latitude so that we recognize california is not the desert is not counted for forest. >> what are the benefits and negative sides of fire breaking out into summers of the west? >> sure. the benefits include advantages to any number of species that involved in the presence of periodic fire. and for most ecosystems in the west united states, fire was a prevalent and frequent occurrence on a landscape, so all species and fire prone systems devolved in the presence of periodically this catastrophe as we like to call it these days, without fire they go extinct as some point so fire is great if

"the chicago tribune" printer's row festa this one features comic book writer harvey pekar and paul buhle on the late studs terkel's book, working. >>> guy mcpherson is a professor at the university of arizona and author of living with fire. professor mcpherson, is there a national fire policy? >> their ase actively in national fire policy developed during the clinton administration and it's largely been abandoned however. what we currently have is a very fractured set of disconnected policies that don't hang together very well so we have something called the national fire policy but we don't pay attention to it. >> is it a good thing in your view to have a national fire policy? >> particularly if a lousy enough flexibility for considerable variation how we treat places on the landscape. so, excuse me, yes, we still have policies that are broader but enough to encompass all acres but there has to be enough latitude so that we recognize california is not the desert is not counted for forest. >> what are the benefits and negative sides of fire breaking out into summers of the west? >> sure.

inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> harvey in pekar and paul buhle discussing their book adaptation. this concludes live coverage from the 2009 "chicago tribune" printer's row it fast. you can watch the entirety of the booktv coverage from the 2009 "chicago tribune" printer's row starting 11 tonight eastern and watch tomorrow at noon eastern for the author interview and call in program and debt. this month the guest is bill ayers former member of the anti-war group the weather underground. >> john catipano is editor-in-chief of illinois press. what books does the university have coming out this year? >> actually all of the posters on the table top display, these are all brand new books and as you can see we have a series of books coming out african-american history including this biography of sojourner truth, a biography of t.r.m. how word. >> who is t.r.m. howard? >> he was actually a conservative civil rights advocate that doesn't get the sort of attention and respect he should but was instrumental in moving forward a lot of black agendas in the so