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A collaborative scientific framework for restoration of fire-adapted ecosystems of the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico [abstract]

McCarthy, Wood
The Jemez Mountains Project is a part of the North American Fire Learning Network (FLN), a collaborative venture of the USDA Forest Service, the Department of the Interior and The Nature Conservancy. Project partners include Bandelier National…
Type: Document
Year: 2003

Culture/ethnicity and fire: the challenge of harmonizing cultural/ethnic variations and traditional practices concerning fire use and management with current practices

Raish, González-Cabán
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Type: Document
Year: 2003

Customary use of fire by indigenous peoples in northern Australia: its contemporary role in savanna management

Whitehead, Bowman, Preece, Fraser, Cooke
The extent to which use of fire by Aboriginal peoples shaped the landscapes and biota of Australia is a contentious issue. Equally contentious is the proposition that attempts should be made to support and re-establish customary practice. Some…
Type: Document
Year: 2003

Fire history of oak-pine forests in the Lower Boston Mountains, Arkansas

Guyette, Spetich
Perspective on present day issues associated with wildland fire can be gained by studying the long-term interactions among humans, landscape, and fire. Fire frequency and extent over the last 320 years document these interactions north of the…
Type: Document
Year: 2003

Fire use in rural tropics: cultural perspectives from Mesoamerica

Otterstrom
Throughout the world's tropical regions, humans play a central role in determining the frequency of fire because the majority of fires have an anthropogenic ignition source. Many cultures use fire in shifting cultivation systems and also for hunting…
Type: Document
Year: 2003

References on the American Indian use of fire in ecosystems

Williams
From page 1: 'Evidence for the purposeful use of fire by American Indians--also termed Native Americans, Indigenous People, and First Nations/People in many ecosystems has been easy to document but difficult to substantiate. Many researchers and…
Type: Document
Year: 2003

Restoring Indian-set fires to prairie ecosystems on the Olympic Peninsula

Wray, Anderson
From the text: 'If ecological restoration is defined as returning ecosystems to the condition in which they existed before non-indigenous settlement, then we argue that with certain ecosystems—such as the prairies on the Olympic Peninsula - their…
Type: Document
Year: 2003

Understanding climate change risk and vulnerability in northern forest-based communities

Davidson, Williamson, Parkins
Much research attention regarding climate change has been focused on the macrophysical and, to a lesser extent, the macrosocial features of this phenomenon. An important step in mitigation and adaptation will be to examine the ways that climate…
Type: Document
Year: 2003