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After the fire: potential impacts of fire exclusion policies on historical Cherokee culture in the southern Appalachian Mountains, USA

Colenbaugh, Hagan
Anthropogenic fire is generally accepted by contemporary foresters as shaping historical landscapes in the southern Appalachian Mountains, the ancestral lands of the Cherokee people. However, the consensus on historical Cherokee cultural burning…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Does large area burned mean a bad fire year? Comparing contemporary wildfire years to historical fire regimes informs the restoration task in fire-dependent forests

Donato, Halofsky, Churchill, Haugo, Cansler, Smith, Harvey
Wildfires and fire seasons are commonly rated largely on the simple metric of area burned (more hectares: bad). A seemingly paradoxical narrative frames large fire seasons as a symptom of a forest health problem (too much fire), while simultaneously…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Exceptional variability in historical fire regimes across a western Cascades landscape, Oregon, USA

Johnston, Schmidt, Merschel, Downing, Coughlan, Lewis
Detailed information about the historical range of variability in wildfire activity informs adaptation to future climate and disturbance regimes. Here, we describe one of the first annually resolved reconstructions of historical (1500-1900 ce) fire…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Exploration of the burning question: a long history of fire in eastern Australia with and without people

Constantine, Williams, Francke, Cadd, Forbes, Cohen, Zhu, Mooney
Ethnographic observations suggest that Indigenous peoples employed a distinct regime of frequent, low-intensity fires in the Australian landscape in the past. However, the timing of this behaviour and its ecological impact remain uncertain. Here, we…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Forest ecology and fire history of the mixed conifer forest belt in the Italian Alps from Late Roman fires to the 20th century under cultural and climate pressure

Furlanetto, Abu El Khair, Badino, Bertuletti, Comolli, Maggi, Perego, Ravazzi
We reconstructed vegetation, fire and watershed history during the Late Roman-Early Middle Ages and in the last three centuries in a mixed conifer forest forming the middle mountain elevational belt in the inner Alpine region, analyzing co-…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Humans and climate modulate fire activity across Ethiopia

Harris, Taylor, Kassa, Leta, Powell
Background: Fire occurrence is influenced by interactions between human activity, climate, and fuels that are difficult to disentangle but crucial to understand, given fire’s role in carbon dynamics, deforestation, and habitat maintenance,…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Investigating the effect of oxidants on the quantification and characterization of charcoal in two southeast Australian sedimentary records

Constantine, Zhu, Cadd, Mooney
This study examined the effects of commonly used oxidants in sedimentary macroscopic charcoal analysis on two sediment cores from Thirlmere Lakes National Park, Southeast Australia. The cores, from Lake Werri Berri (WB3) and Lake Couridjah (LC2),…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Levoglucosan and its isomers in terrestrial sediment as a molecular markers provide direct evidence for the low-temperature fire during the mid-Holocene in the northern Shandong peninsula of China

Tan, Yuan, Gu, Han, Mao, Tan, Wu, Han
Black carbon and charcoal's limitation in detecting low-temperature fires could be a major obstacle in observing paleofire. To reconstruct a low-temperature fire pattern and vegetation changes in the Changyi in the northern Shandong Peninsula over…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Reconnecting fire culture of aboriginal communities with contemporary wildfire risk management

Atkinson, Montiel-Molina
This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the transition towards a new paradigm of wildfire risk management in Victoria that incorporates Aboriginal fire knowledge. We show the suitability of cultural burning in the transformed landscapes…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

The contribution of Indigenous stewardship to an historical mixed-severity fire regime in British Columbia, Canada

Copes-Gerbitz, Daniels, Hagerman
Indigenous land stewardship and mixed-severity fire regimes both promote landscape heterogeneity, and the relationship between them is an emerging area of research. In our study, we reconstructed the historical fire regime of Ne Sextsine, a 5900-ha…
Type: Document
Year: 2023