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Kelly, McCarthy
From Field Examples ... 'Over the past two decades, at least 20 examples of 'rock art' resources impacted by wildland fires or vandalism have been reported within several States. While these examples are only a few from an unknown number of 'rock…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Haecker
From the Summary ... 'Exposure of a historic structure or object to fire, regardless of the temperature that is generated, does not necessarily equate with destroying its value as a cultural resource. For instance, a low-temperature prescribed fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Deal
From Lithic Artifacts and Fire ... 'Artifacts made of stone are generally the best preserved of all material types in the archaeological record, often providing the only evidence of where people lived and worked in the past. Despite its durability,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Williams, Baker
Aim Wildfire is often considered more severe now than historically in dry forests of the western United States. Tree-ring reconstructions, which suggest that historical dry forests were park-like with large, old trees maintained by low-severity…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Parisien, Snetsinger, Greenberg, Nelson, Schoennagel, Dobrowski, Moritz
Despite growing knowledge of fire-environment linkages in the western USA, obtaining reliable estimates of relative wildfire likelihood remains a work in progress. The purpose of this study is to use updated fire observations during a 25-year period…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Ryan, Koerner
From the Conclusions ... 'Fires have impacted cultures for millennia and fire will continue to impact contemporary cultures as well as the remnants of past cultures. The challenge is to manage vagetation/fuels to minimize damage to contemporary…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Ryan, Koerner, Lee, Siefkin
From the text ... 'This volume is intended to be used as a reference for both cultural resource specialists and fire managers during their planning processes. The intended audience includes resource and fire managers employed by public, tribal, and…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Rude, Jones
From the Conclusions ... 'Experimental studies focus mainly on the visual impacts of fire on potsherds. Fire effects on analytical properties of ceramics are less understood. Smoke blackening of sherds located at the ground surface is the most…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
By using tree ring data to develop climate and fire chronologies, several climate induced fire patterns were deduced. Specifically, the researchers showed that reconstructed sea surface temperature (SST) changes in the form of three different…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Williams, Baker
Aim: Wildfire is often considered more severe now than historically in dry forests of the western United States. Tree-ring reconstructions, which suggest that historical dry forests were park-like with large, old trees maintained by low-severity…
Year: 2012
Type: Document