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Reintroducing Indian-type fire: implications for land managers [including: What is Indian-type fire?; Indian-type fire on the Reservations; Objections to Indian-type fire use; Where do people fit into ecosystems?; Reasons for using fire; Bruce Babbit
Document Type: Journal Article
Author(s): G. W. Williams
Publication Year: 2000

Cataloging Information

Keyword(s):
  • aesthetics
  • air quality
  • artificial regeneration
  • clearcutting
  • cover type conversion
  • ecosystem dynamics
  • fire exclusion
  • fire hazard reduction
  • fire intensity
  • fire management
  • fire suppression
  • floods
  • forest management
  • fuel accumulation
  • fuel loading
  • fuel management
  • grasslands
  • grazing
  • health factors
  • hydrology
  • land management
  • liability
  • lightning caused fires
  • logging
  • low intensity burns
  • mosaic
  • national forests
  • Native Americans
  • old growth forests
  • Pinus contorta
  • Pinus ponderosa
  • plant growth
  • prairies
  • presettlement vegetation
  • savannas
  • season of fire
  • shrublands
  • slash
  • smoke effects
  • smoke management
  • soil nutrients
  • succession
  • thinning
  • US Forest Service
  • vegetation surveys
  • Washington
  • wilderness fire management
  • wildlife habitat management
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Record Last Modified: May 22, 2019
FRAMES Record Number: 40942
Tall Timbers Record Number: 15757
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 ... 'Removing American Indians from the land effectively ended wildland burning practices that had lasted for millennia. ...The Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management together administer several hundred million acres of grassland and other grazing land where Indian burning techniques can and should be used. ...In planning, land managers should consider the difficulties inherent in restoring a past 'natural' condition. ...Abdicating management responsibility to let 'nature' do its work--through lightning-caused fires, floods, disease. and insect outbreaks--is not a realistic option.'

Online Link(s):
Link to the full Fire Management Today issue (1 MB; pdf)
Citation:
Williams, G. W. 2000. Reintroducing Indian-type fire: implications for land managers [including: What is Indian-type fire?; Indian-type fire on the Reservations; Objections to Indian-type fire use; Where do people fit into ecosystems?; Reasons for using fire; Bruce Babbit. Fire Management Today, v. 60, no. 3, p. 40-48.