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Paleoecological and paleolandscape modeling support for pre-Columbian burning by Native Americans in the Golden Trout Wilderness Area, California, USA

Klimaszewski-Patterson, Mensing
Context Though people have used fire to alter landscapes across North America for millennia, there remains a debate whether Native Americans altered California’s mountainous forests to create an anthropogenic landscape. Objective We use…
Type: Document
Year: 2020

Native American fire patterns in Yosemite Valley: a cross-disciplinary study

Gassaway
The inability to distinguish between human-caused and lightning ignitions in fire-history studies has led to three major problems: 1) a basic assumption that all pre-Euro-American settlement fire regimes are ''natural'' unless findings are aberrant…
Type: Document
Year: 2007