Fire and Archaeology

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Using forest management techniques to alter forest fuels and reduce wildfire size: an exploratory analysis

During the next few decades, a considerable portion of the productive boreal forest in Canada will be harvested and there is an excellent opportunity to use forest management activities (e.g., harvesting, regeneration, stand tending) to alter the...

Person: Engstrom, Galley, de Groot, Hirsch, Kafka, Todd

Year: 2004

Type: Document

Pattern and process in south Swedish forests during the last 3000 years, sensed at stand and regional scales

1. Two palaeoecological data sets were used to study forest development in the boreo-nemoral zone of southern Sweden during the last 3000 years. Maps of forest types present in 1250 B, AD 500 and today were compiled from regional pollen data and these...

Person: Lindbladh, Bradshaw, Holmqvist

Year: 2000

Type: Document

The genesis of two Picea-Cladina forests in northern Sweden

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 development...

Person: Hornberg, Ostlund, Zackrisson, Bergman

Year: 1999

Type: Document

Vegetation composition, structure, and chronological change in a decadent midwestern North American savanna remnant

Fire-maintained oak savannas on silt-loam soils essentially disappeared from midwestern North America soon after European settlement because of fire suppression and agriculture. As a result, there are no precise models for restoring this vegetation and...

Person: Bowles, McBride

Year: 1998

Type: Document

The pristine myth: the landscape of the Americas in 1492

The myth persists that in 1492 the Americas were a sparsely populated wilderness, 'a world of barely perceptible human disturbance.' There is substantial evidence, however, that the Native American landscape of the early sixteenth century was...

Person: Denevan

Year: 1992

Type: Document

Human disturbance of North American forests and grasslands: the fossil pollen record

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Person: Huntley, Webb, McAndrews

Year: 1988

Type: Document

Prehistoric land-use and the distribution of longleaf pine on the Ocala National Forest, Florida: an interdisciplinary synthesis

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Person: Kalisz, Dorian, Stone

Year: 1986

Type: Document

Early forest clearance and environmental degradation in south-west Uganda

Evidence for early agriculture can be obtained from pollen profiles indicating forest clearance1. The practice of cultivation is widely believed to have been introduced into the interlacustrine region of central Africa by Bantu-speaking iron-workers2,...

Person: Hamilton, Taylor, Vogel

Year: 1986

Type: Document

Presettlement barrens of Harrison and Washington Counties, Indiana

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Person: Keith

Year: 1980

Type: Document