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Name: 'Careless fires' and 'smoaky weather': the documentation of prescribed burning in the Peace-Athabasca trading post journals 1818-1899
Description: An examination of a series of trade post journals from northern Alberta shows how the recording of prescribed fires was shaped by the foci of these brief journal entries. Contextual analysis of these records informed by previous ethnographic research...
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Name: 'Lest we forget': Canada's major wildland fire disasters of the past, 1825-1938
Description: This paper provides an overview and summary of nine of the most devastating wildland fire disasters to have occurred in Canada and in some cases, adjoining areas of the United States, in the distant past. The list includes the following cases:...
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Name: 11,000 years of fire history and climate in the mountain hemlock rain forests of southwestern British Columbia based on sedimentary charcoal
Description: Little is known about the role of fire in the mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana (Bong.) Carri�re) rain forests of southern British Columbia. High-resolution analysis of macroscopic charcoal from lake sediment cores, along with 102 accelerator mass...
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Name: 2007 Science Accomplishments Report of the Pacific Northwest Research Station
Description: As I look back at 2007 for the Pacific Northwest (PNW) Research Station, I am very gratified at the contributions of our scientists and support staff in producing scientific knowledge and tools. This year has brought unprecedented recognition of the...
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Name: 2011 Alaska Fire Science Workshop agenda
Description: The Alaska Fire Science Workshop will be held at the BLM-Alaska Fire Service Main Office located on Fort Wainwright, October 6-7, 2011. Presentations will be available for download prior to the workshop at http://akfireconsortium.uaf.edu.
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Name: A 10,000 year local forest fire history in a dry heath forest site in eastern Finland, reconstructed from charcoal layer records of a small mire
Description: Local fire history covering the entire Holocene period at a dry forest site in North Karelia, eastern Finland (ca. 63�07' N, 30�44' E), was reconstructed on the basis of visible charcoal layers from peat deposits of a small mire basin. Seven points...
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Name: A 1000-year record of forest fire, drought and lake-level change in southeastern British Columbia, Canada
Description: High-resolution charcoal analysis of lake sediments and stand-age information were used to reconstruct a 1000-year fire history around Dog Lake, which is located in the montane spruce zone of southeastern British Columbia. Macroscopic charcoal...
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Name: A 1000-yr record of forest fire activity from Eclipse Icefield, Yukon, Canada
Description: A 1000-yr record of forest fire activity has been developed using three annually dated ice cores from Eclipse Icefield, Yukon, Canada. Forest fire signals were identified as NH4+ residuals above a robust spline and corroborated by an empirical...
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Name: A 12,000 year record of vegetation change and soil development from Wien Lake, central Alaska
Description: Pollen, plant-macrofossil, macroscopic-charcoal, and geochemical analyses of a sediment core from Wien Lake provide new information on the late Quaternary environmental history of central Alaska. Shrub tundra dominated by Betula glandulosa occupied...
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Name: A 13,000-year history of vegetation and environmental change at Jan Lake, east-central Alaska
Description: Pollen, stomates and macrofossils were analysed from a 3.63 m sediment core at Jan Lake, eastcentral Alaska, in order to improve spatial resolution of patterns of vegetation history in this region. The chronology was based on 19 AMS 14C dates on plant...
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