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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The rejuvenating effects of natural fires prior to 1900 in Southwestern forest communities have been replaced by recent, unprecedented crownfires.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

Pre-Columbian Native American use of fire on southern Appalachian landscapes

Delcourt, Delcourt
Fire suppression in the southern Appalachians is widely considered responsible for decreased regeneration in oak (Quercus) and fire-adapted species such as table mountain pine (Pinus rigida) and pitch pine (Pinus pungens) (Barden & Woods 1976;…
Type: Document
Year: 1997

The liability and environmental consequences of not burning in California

Bakken
In California, the percentage of wildland which is prescribed burned has been declining for many years. Fear of litigation, environmental concerns, and public perceptions seem to be the stumbling blocks. Is the reverse true: if we stop prescription…
Type: Document
Year: 1997

A model for prehistoric economies of the yellowstone plateau during the Altithermal

Cannon
One of the more debated issues in western North American prehistory is the effect of postglacial maximum warmth and aridity on hunter-gatherer groups. Antevs (1955) described the 'Long Drought,' or Altithermal, as a period of warmer than present…
Type: Document
Year: 1996

Elk response to the La Mesa Fire and current status in the Jemez Mountains

Allen
Faunal remains in local archeological sites and historic information suggest that elk populations in the Jemez Mountains were low from ca. 1200 A.D. through ca. 1900 A.D., when they were extirpated from this region. Elk were reintroduced to the…
Type: Document
Year: 1996

Heritage resources and fire management: a resource management crossroads

Cartledge
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Type: Document
Year: 1996

Modeling human impacts to the borderlands environment from a fire ecology perspective

Fish
The methods and motivations for fire use varied for late prehistoric societies of the Southwest. Although fire was probably used to increase the returns from hunting and gathering on marginal lands, it seems doubtful that comprehensive burning was…
Type: Document
Year: 1996

Modeling human impacts to the Borderlands environment from a fire ecology perspective

Fish
The methods and motivations for fire use varied for late prehistoric societies of the Southwest. Although fire was probably used to increase the returns from hunting and gathering on marginal lands, it seems doubtful that comprehensive burning was…
Type: Document
Year: 1996

Remembering the La Mesa Fire

Lissoway
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Type: Document
Year: 1996