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Goode
Cultural burning means burning with the intent to improve cultural resources. That, however, is a very ambiguous statement. Culture is a people’s way of life, where they live or lived and how they live. For the Native American, prior to the Euro-…
Type: Media
Year: 2017

Stowe
A presentation recorded at the 7th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress.
Type: Media
Year: 2017

The Interagency Prescribed Fire Planning and Implementation Procedures Guide establishes national interagency standards for the planning and implementation of prescribed fire. These standards: 1) Describe what is minimally acceptable for prescribed…
Type: Document
Year: 2017

Long, Goode, Gutteriez, Lackey, Anderson
Many tribes in California and Oregon value California black oak (Quercus kelloggii) as a traditional source of food and other values. Over centuries or millennia, Native Americans learned that they could enhance production of desired resources by…
Type: Document
Year: 2017

Monzón-Alvarado, Keys
Agricultural fire for land preparation is central in the livelihoods of subsistence farmers practicing shifting cultivation. Achieving a good agricultural burn, one in which the biomass is thoroughly consumed within the chosen area, depends on…
Type: Document
Year: 2017

Brauneis
From the text ... 'The Sioux and Cheyenne traditionally set fire to the prairie as they moved their summer camps in pursuit of game. ...The Great Sioux War provides a sharp contrast in how two different cultures with diverse values and objectives…
Type: Document
Year: 2004

Robertson, Palmer, Masters
The purpose of this presentation is to reiterate the ecological importance of frequent fire for maintenance of upland ecosystems in the South. We present the Red Hills experience, where fire use has remained the dominant land management practice, as…
Type: Document
Year: 2004

Guyette, Stambaugh, Day
Wildland fire regimes vary with human population density, topography, and climate. The significance of these factors is often difficult to understand and identify at short temporal and small spatial scales. Dendrochronological fire histories from…
Type: Document
Year: 2004

White, Feller
The top-down hypothesis for long-term condition of Rocky Mountain trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) holds that these stands developed under conditions of frequent anthropogenic fires and low herbivory by ungulates due to intense predation by…
Type: Document
Year: 2004