Document

Title

Early fire use in Oregon [including: Indian versus settler fire use and Presettlement fires--natural or human caused?]
Document Type: Journal Article
Author(s): G. W. Williams
Publication Year: 2000

Cataloging Information

Keyword(s):
  • agriculture
  • Cascades Range
  • European settlement
  • fire frequency
  • fire management
  • grass fires
  • grasslands
  • human caused fires
  • hunting
  • Larix occidentalis
  • Madia
  • Montana
  • mountains
  • Native Americans
  • native species (plants)
  • Odocoileus hemionus
  • Oncorhynchus
  • Oregon
  • Pinus ponderosa
  • prairies
  • prescribed fires (escaped)
  • presettlement fires
  • presettlement vegetation
  • Pseudotsuga menziesii
  • Quercus
  • Quercus garryana
  • rivers
  • savannas
  • Sierra Nevada
  • Washington
  • wilderness areas
  • wilderness fire management
  • wildlife food plants
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Record Maintained By:
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Record Last Modified: May 22, 2019
FRAMES Record Number: 40938
Tall Timbers Record Number: 15753
TTRS Location Status: In-file
TTRS Call Number: A13.32:60/3
TTRS Abstract Status: Fair use, Okay, Reproduced by permission

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Description

From the text ... 'The first white travelers in the Willamette Valley found extensive prairie and oak savanna maintained through Indian-set fires.'

Online Link(s):
Link to the full Fire Management Today issue (1 MB; pdf)
Citation:
Williams, G. W. 2000. Early fire use in Oregon [including: Indian versus settler fire use and Presettlement fires--natural or human caused?]. Fire Management Today, v. 60, no. 3, p. 13-20.