Understanding climate and human impacts on historical fire regimes in the PNW

Document

Title

Document Type: Fact Sheet / Brief / Bulletin

Author(s): Northwest Fire Science Consortium

Publication Year: 2019

Cataloging Information

Keyword(s):

charcoal
fire regimes
human impacts
late Holocene
pollen

Topic(s):

Region(s):

Northwest

Record Maintained By:

FRAMES Staff; https://www.frames.gov/contact

Record Last Modified: October 23, 2019

FRAMES Record Number: 58810

Description

As fire is increasingly used as a restoration and management tool throughout the Pacific Northwest (PNW), it is important to understand the factors influencing historical fire regimes. For ecosystems with long histories of human activity, this requires looking beyond the past 200 years, when Euro-American disease and settlements reduced the majority of the Native American influence on the landscape. Paleoecological records provide reliable information on vegetation change and fire history, but these records should be balanced with archaeological, ethnographic and historical information for areas where fire regimes are influenced by both ecological and anthropogenic drivers.

Online Link(s):

Link to this document (1.3 MB; pdf)

Citation:

Northwest Fire Science Consortium. 2019. Understanding climate and human impacts on historical fire regimes in the PNW. Research Brief 21. Corvallis, OR: Northwest Fire Science Consortium. 2 p.

Related Records

Relates to:

Document: Toward a better understanding of climate and human impacts on late Holocene fire regimes in the Pacific Northwest, USA