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Legacies of Indigenous land use shaped past wildfire regimes in the Basin-Plateau Region, USA

Carter, Brunelle, Power, DeRose, Bekker, Hart, Brewer, Spangler, Robinson, Abbott, Maezumi, Codding
Climatic conditions exert an important influence on wildfire activity in the western United States; however, Indigenous farming activity may have also shaped the local fire regimes for millennia. The Fish Lake Plateau is located on the Great Basin–…
Type: Document
Year: 2021

Native American fire management at an ancient wildland-urban interface in the Southwest United States

Roos, Swetnam, Ferguson, Liebmann, Loehman, Welch, Margolis, Guiterman, Hockaday, Aiuvalasit, Battillo, Farella, Kiahtipes
The intersection of expanding human development and wildland landscapes—the “wildland–urban interface” or WUI—is one of the most vexing contexts for fire management because it involves complex interacting systems of people and nature. Here, we…
Type: Document
Year: 2021

People, fire, and pine: linking human agency and landscape in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and beyond

Larson, Kipfmueller, Johnson
The creation and modification of landscape patterns through interactions among people and the environment is a defining focus in the discipline of geography. Here, we contribute to that tradition by placing 500 years of red pine (Pinus resinosa)…
Type: Document
Year: 2021

The history of human land use activities in the Northern Alps since the Neolithic Age

Gilck, Poschlod
Millenia of sustainable, low intensity land use have formed the cultural landscapes of central Europe. Studies from the Central Alps show that mountain pastures also look back onto many thousand years of land use history. In this palynological and…
Type: Document
Year: 2021

Using charcoal, ATR FTIR and chemometrics to model the intensity of pyrolysis: exploratory steps towards characterising fire events

Constantine, Mooney, Hibbert, Marjo, Bird, Cohen, Forbes, McBeath, Rich, Stride
This study describes a multivariate statistical model (derived using partial least squares regression, PLS-R) that derives charring intensity (reaction temperature and duration) from the attenuated total reflectance (ATR) Fourier Transform Infrared…
Type: Document
Year: 2021

History of ''olivillo'' (Aextoxicon punctatum) and Myrtaceae relict forests of Isla Mocha, Chile, during the late Holocene

LeQuesne, Villagran, Villa
Here we present fossil pollen and charcoal concentrations results from two stratigraphic columns from Isla Mocha (38°19'-38°25'S; 73°57'-73°52'W), Laguna Hermosa (350 m.a.s.l.) and Laguna Huairavos ( 125 m.a.s.l.). These results suggest that the…
Type: Document
Year: 1999

Restoration in northwest interior forests

Hardy, Keane, Harrington
From the text...'The term restoration relates to activities required to reduce hazards from wildland fires and improve federal forest and grassland health to a condition that can be maintained through periodic disturbance. Restoration and…
Type: Document
Year: 1999

The genesis of two Picea-Cladina forests in northern Sweden

Hornberg, Ostlund, Zackrisson, Bergman
1. In northern Fennoscandia a rare forest type, characterized by Cladina species and Picea abies, occurs on dry productive sites outside the range of permafrost but close to the Scandes mountains. 2. We determined the history of vegetation…
Type: Document
Year: 1999

The Holocene biogeographic history of elk (Cervus elaphus) in western Washington

Harpole, Lyman
Many mammalian species found today in Washington state experienced a dynamic biogeographic history during the Holocene epoch (last 10,000 years).The elk (Cervus elaphus) was one of those species. Seventy archacological sites in Washington west of…
Type: Document
Year: 1999