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Ryan, Koerner, Lee, Siefkin
From the text ... 'This volume is intended to be used as a reference for both cultural resource specialists and fire managers during their planning processes. The intended audience includes resource and fire managers employed by public, tribal, and…
Type: Document
Year: 2012
Ryan, Koerner
From the Conclusions ... 'Fires have impacted cultures for millennia and fire will continue to impact contemporary cultures as well as the remnants of past cultures. The challenge is to manage vagetation/fuels to minimize damage to contemporary…
Type: Document
Year: 2012
Rude, Jones
From the Conclusions ... 'Experimental studies focus mainly on the visual impacts of fire on potsherds. Fire effects on analytical properties of ceramics are less understood. Smoke blackening of sherds located at the ground surface is the most…
Type: Document
Year: 2012
Deal
From Lithic Artifacts and Fire ... 'Artifacts made of stone are generally the best preserved of all material types in the archaeological record, often providing the only evidence of where people lived and worked in the past. Despite its durability,…
Type: Document
Year: 2012
Kelly, McCarthy
From Field Examples ... 'Over the past two decades, at least 20 examples of 'rock art' resources impacted by wildland fires or vandalism have been reported within several States. While these examples are only a few from an unknown number of 'rock…
Type: Document
Year: 2012
Haecker
From the Summary ... 'Exposure of a historic structure or object to fire, regardless of the temperature that is generated, does not necessarily equate with destroying its value as a cultural resource. For instance, a low-temperature prescribed fire…
Type: Document
Year: 2012
Oster, Ruscavage-Barz, Elliott
From the Summary and Conclusions ... 'The accumulations of fuels on contemporary landscapes have reached historically unprecedented levels, thanks to decades of aggressive fire suppression and exclusion. The potential for fires to destroy or…
Type: Document
Year: 2012
Welch
From the text ... 'As the implications of enabling fire to reclaim its roles in wildland ecosystems continue to unfold, we are learning about how we value, view, and treat public lands, forests, fire, archaeological and historical sites, and…
Type: Document
Year: 2012
Timmons, DeBano, Ryan
From Wildland Fire Management Recommendations ... 'The protection of cultural resources during wildland fire is more challenging than for a prescribed burn. Treatment options available to mitigate the direct impacts from wildland fire include use of…
Type: Document
Year: 2012
Ryan
The over all objective of the Rainbow Series Project is to write, publish, and distribute a series of 'state of the art' reviews of the effects of fire on fauna, flora, air, cultural resources, and soil and water (5 volumes). The Missoula Fire Lab…
Type: Project
Year: 2012