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Fire history and its drivers based on peatland charcoal analysis in the Changbai Mountains, north-east China, during the last 13 000 years

Meng, Jie, Li, Li, Liu, Gao, Wang, Niu, Liu, Zhang
The Changbai Mountains forest ecosystem is one of the best-preserved temperate mountain forest ecosystems in Asia. Since the establishment of the reserve in 1960, extensive forest fires have been excluded as a result of strict regulation and…
Type: Document
Year: 2020

Fire suppression impacts on fuels and fire intensity in the western U.S.: insights from archaeological luminescence dating in northern New Mexico

Roos, Rittenour, Swetnam, Loehman, Hollenback, Liebmann, Rosenstein
Here, we show that the last century of fire suppression in the western U.S. has resulted in fire intensities that are unique over more than 900 years of record in ponderosa pine forests (Pinus ponderosa). Specifically, we use the heat-sensitive…
Type: Document
Year: 2020

An environmental narrative of inland Northwest United States forests, 1800-2000

Hessburg, Agee
Fire was arguably the most important forest and rangeland disturbance process in the Inland Northwest United States for millennia. Prior to the Lewis and Clark expedition, fire regimes ranged from high severity with return intervals of one to five…
Type: Document
Year: 2003

Protect the past

Maclean
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Type: Document
Year: 2003