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Lentz, Gaunt, Willmer
This report presents the Phase I results of a joint project between the Office of Archaeological Studies (OAS) of the Museum of New Mexico and the USDA Forest Service (USFS). The objectives of this study were to: 1) Determine whether cultural…
Type: Document
Year: 1996
Ffolliott
This conference provided a forum in which resource specialists, managers, researchers, and other interested people could share their collective experiences, opinions, and informational needs on 1) the effects of fire on the resources, and 2) fire…
Type: Document
Year: 1996
Skinner, Chang
Fire has been an important ecosystem process in the Sierra Nevada for thousands of years. Before the area was settled in the 1850s, fires were generally frequent throughout much of the range. The frequency and severity of these fires varied…
Type: Document
Year: 1996
Cartledge
Until the past few years Forest Service fire management had been characterized by a program of total wildfire suppression coupled with relatively small scale prescribed burning, having fuels reduction as the principle objective. As the organization…
Type: Document
Year: 1996
Pyne, Andrews, Laven
This text provides a comprehensive resource for studying the fundamentals of fire behavior, its ecological effects, and its cultural and institutional framework. It presents the fundamental physics and chemistry of fire, fire behavior, wildland…
Type: Document
Year: 1996
Hilsenbeck
From the text...'Proposed as a joint Conservation and Recreation Lands (CARL) and Save Our Rivers (SOR) acquisition project in late 1994, the nearly 48,000 acre Kissimmee Prairie/River Ecosystem represents the kind of large, functionally integrated…
Type: Document
Year: 1996
Clark, Royall
1..Presettlement fire regimes in north-eastern North America and their dependence on climate, fuels, and cultural patterns are poorly understood due to lack of relevant historic or palaeoecological data. Annual records of sediment charcoal…
Type: Document
Year: 1996
Clark, Royall
(1) Presettlement fire regimes in north-eastern North America and their dependence on climate, fuels, and cultural patterns are poorly understood due to lack of relevant historic or palaeoecological data. Annual records of sediment charcoal…
Type: Document
Year: 1996
Fish
The methods and motivations for fire use varied for late prehistoric societies of the Southwest. Although fire was probably used to increase the returns from hunting and gathering on marginal lands, it seems doubtful that comprehensive burning was…
Type: Document
Year: 1996
Spoerl
The effects of fire on material evidence of past human cultures have not been systematically investigated in the Madrean Archipelago. The potential of fire to alter interpretations of prehistoric and historic human occupation is an important…
Type: Document
Year: 1996