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Documenting ancient plant management in the northwest of North America

Lepofsky, Lertzman
Ethnographic literature documents the pervasiveness of plant-management strategies, such as prescribed burning and other kinds of cultivation, among Northwest Peoples after European contact. In contrast, definitive evidence of precontact plant…
Type: Document
Year: 2008

Implications of a 14,200 year contiguous fire record for understanding human-climate relationships at Goochs Swamp, New South Wales, Australia

Black, Mooney, Attenbrow
This paper interprets macroscopic charcoal (>250 μm), humification and loss-on-ignition over the last ~14200 cal. BP from Goochs Swamp, located to the west of Sydney in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. This study aimed to…
Type: Document
Year: 2008

Pre-European fire regimes in Australian ecosystems

Enright, Thomas
We use multiple lines of evidence, including palaeo-environmental, ecological, historical, anthropological and archaeological, to investigate pre-European fire regimes in Australia, with particular focus on the extent to which the use of fire by…
Type: Document
Year: 2008

Resources: wildland fire and cultural resource management: a view from the American southwest

Haines, Schofer
Over the last three decades, archaeologists employed by federal land management agencies have become increasingly involved in wildland fire incidents. Roles and responsibilities are poorly identified for fire archaeologists, and guidance is limited…
Type: Document
Year: 2008

Using a spatially explicit ecological model to test scenarios of fire use by Native Americans: an example from the Harlem Plains, New York, NY

Bean, Sanderson
It is unclear to what extent Native Americans in the pre-European forests of northeast North America used fire to manipulate their landscape. Conflicting historical and archaeological evidence has led authors to differing conclusions regarding the…
Type: Document
Year: 2008

Wildland fire guidelines for archaeologists on the Kaibab National Forest

Hangan, Lyndon, Reid, Weintraub, Bettenson, Ruff, Gifford, Haines, Robertson
Archaeology is a major resource issue when there is a fire, whether it is a Wildfire, Wildland Fire Use or a prescribed burn. During fires, the Kaibab National Forest often requests archaeologists from other forests and regions to assist with fires…
Type: Document
Year: 2008

Fire in sacred groves and wildlife reserves: the case of the boabeng-fiema monkey sanctuary

Nsiah-Gyabaah
From the text... "This paper examines the pressures that lead to reduction of biodiversity especially the threat of wildfire to environmental resources, how indigenous people in Ghana protect vital environmental resources through culture, religion…
Type: Document
Year: 1997

Fire management challenges and opportunities for land managers: using Okefenokee and Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuges as examples

Reeves, Cole, Savery
Managers of designated wilderness or conservation areas, especially those that are fire-dependent, often face a major dilemma. It is essential that fire perform its natural role of rejuvenating the ecosystem. Standards of environmental regulation,…
Type: Document
Year: 1997

How agencies can achieve fire management objectives while protecting cultural resources: a look at the southwest

Lissoway
The rejuvenating effects of natural fires prior to 1900 in Southwestern forest communities have been replaced by recent, unprecedented crownfires. These wildfires have given rise to planned expansion of management fire as a tool for ecosystem…
Type: Document
Year: 1997

Overview of Cultural Resources Act requirements (overview of heritage resources and prescribed fire)

Knudsen
Cultural Resources (more recently named Heritage Resources) are becoming recognized resources which require the same planning, inventory, mitigation and management activities as other more familiar natural resources. Management of prescribed fire…
Type: Document
Year: 1997