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Type: Conference Paper
Coordinator(s): Peter F. Ffolliott; Leonard F. DeBano; Malchus B. Baker Jr.; Gerald J. Gottfried; Gilberto Solis-Garza; Carleton B. Edminster; Daniel G. Neary; Robert H. Hamre
Publication Date: 1996
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 used as a tool within patterned agrarian settings and immediate sustaining areas. Controlled rather than comprehensive uses of fire were the key to improving natural vegetation structure.
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Citation: Fish, S. K. 1996. Modeling human impacts to the borderlands environment from a fire ecology perspective, in PF Ffolliott, LF DeBano, MB Baker, GJ Gottfried, G Solis-Garza, CB Edminster, DG Neary, and RH Hamre eds., Effects of fire on Madrean province ecosystems: a symposium proceedings. March 11-15, 1996, Tuscon, AZ. Fort Collins, CO, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, General Technical Report RM-289, p. 125-134.
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Keywords:
- anthropogenic effects
- apache practices
- archaeological sequence
- Arizona
- borderlands
- deserts
- disturbance
- ecosystem dynamics
- fire frequency
- fire hazard reduction
- fire intensity
- fire management
- fire suppression
- grasslands
- grazing
- hunting
- intensive cultivation
- lightning caused fires
- national forests
- Native Americans
- New Mexico
- prehistoric agriculturalists
- prehistoric settlement patterns
- pueblos
- range management
- runoff
- shrubs
- vegetation surveys
- wildfires
- woody plants
Tall Timbers Record Number: 20055 • Location Status: Not in file • Call Number: A13.88:RM-289 • Abstract Status: Fair use, Okay, Reproduced by permission
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