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Sturdevant, Skalsky, Wienk, Dolan, Gonzalez, Amrine
Today, park managers must routinely balance the restoration needs of natural resources with the preservation of cultural resources. This project was designed to provide park managers with scientific data on the impacts from wildland fire to…
Type: Document
Year: 2009
Sturdevant, Skalsky, Wienk
This experimental study is proposed to address the local area needs of Midwest Region units of the National Park Service with regards to the fire/archeology interface. This proposal outlines an experimental project designed to provide park managers…
Type: Project
Year: 2009
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
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
Barker, Biondi, Gregory, Livingston, Mensing
The objective of the proposed project is to develop a methodology for reconstructing the long-term history of fire frequency and effects on the sage-grass landscapes in the Great Basin, a landscape type for which few studies are available but which…
Type: Project
Year: 2007
Carcaillet, Bergman, Delorme, Hornberg, Zackrisson
Knowledge of past fire regimes is crucial for understanding the changes in fire frequency that are likely to occur during the coming decades as a result of global warming and land-use change. This is a key issue for the sustainable management of…
Type: Document
Year: 2007
Rodgers, Kemp, Koontz
Bandelier National Monument and the surrounding Jemez Mountains have a long history of wildland fire. The restoration of fire, as a natural disturbance process, to its historic role at Bandelier is one of the Monument's highest management priorities.
Type: Document
Year: 2005
Johnson
The 2003 Mustang Fire required Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) treatment and monitoring of archaeological sites on Ashley National Forest in northeastern Utah. The fire burned over 20,000- acre area and nearly 300 known sites. Ashley Heritage…
Type: Document
Year: 2004
Fowler
Fire is one of many ecological and cultural processes that affect cultural resources and the contexts in which they are located. Cultural resources are material and non-material representations of contemporary, historic, and prehistoric lifeways.…
Type: Document
Year: 2004
Naveh, Carmel
The early evolution of the cultural Mediterranean landscape in Israel, with special reference to Mt. Carmel, is described with a holistic landscape-ecological systems approach as the coevolution of the paleolithic food gatherer-hunter and his…
Type: Document
Year: 2004