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...
Fire and Archaeology
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Person: Ryan, Jones, Koerner, Lee, Timmons, DeBano, Ryan
Created Year: 2012
Type: Document
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...
Person: Ryan, Jones, Koerner, Lee, Welch
Created Year: 2012
Type: Document
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...
Person: Ryan, Jones, Koerner, Lee, Haecker
Created Year: 2012
Type: Document
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...
Person: Ryan, Jones, Koerner, Lee, Deal
Created Year: 2012
Type: Document
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...
Person: Ryan, Jones, Koerner, Lee, Rude, Jones
Created Year: 2012
Type: Document
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...
Person: Ryan, Jones, Koerner, Lee, Ryan, Koerner
Created Year: 2012
Type: Document
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,...
Person: Ryan, Jones, Koerner, Lee, Ryan, Koerner, Lee, Siefkin
Created Year: 2012
Type: Document
This specialist report is an assessment of the potential for the aerial application of fire retardant to affect the character and integrity of historic properties. Additional general information about fire retardant can be found in the EIS.
Person: Reed
Created Year: 2011
Type: Document
Aim There remains some uncertainty concerning the causes of extinctions of Madagascar's megafauna. One hypothesis is that they were caused by over-hunting by humans. A second hypothesis is that their extinction was caused by both environmental...
Person: Virah-Sawmy, Willis, Gillson
Created Year: 2010
Type: Document
Key questions for understanding the resilience and variability of Mexican Neotropical cloud forest assemblages in current and future climate change include: How have human disturbances and climate change affected the dynamics of the cloud forest...
Person: Figueroa-Rangel, Willis, Olvera-Vargas
Created Year: 2010
Type: Document