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Title:

Indians, fire, and the land in the Pacific Northwest / Robert Boyd, editor.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Oregon State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1999

Description:

313 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Indians of North America--Agriculture--Northwest, Pacific.
Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific--Social life and customs.
Human ecology--Northwest, Pacific.
Fire ecology--Northwest, Pacific.
Prescribed burning--Northwest, Pacific.
Northwest, Pacific--Social life and customs.

Other Authors:

Boyd, Robert, Ph. D.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Robert Boyd -- Aboriginal control of huckleberry yield in the Northwest / David French -- Indian land use and environmental change : Island County, Washington, a case study / Richard White -- Indian fires in the northern Rockies : ethnohistory and ecology / Stephen Barrett and Stephen Arno -- The Klikitat Trail of south-central Washington : a reconstruction of seasonally used resource sites / Helen H. Norton, Robert Boyd, and Eugene Hunn -- Strategies of Indian burning in the Willamette Valley / Robert Boyd -- An ecological history of old prairie areas in southwestern Washington / Estella B. Leopold and Robert Boyd -- Yards, corridors, and mosaics : how to burn a boreal forest / Henry T. Lewis and Theresa A. Ferguson -- "Time to burn" : traditional use of fire to enhance resource production by aboriginal people in British Columbia / Nancy J. Turner -- Landscape and environment : ecological change in the intermontane Northwest / William G. Robbins -- Aboriginal burning for vegetation management in northwest British Columbia / Leslie Main Johnson -- Burning for a "free and beautiful open country" : native uses of fire in southwestern Oregon / Jeff LaLands and Reg Pullen -- Proto-historical and historical spoken prescribed burning and stewardship of resource areas / John Ross -- Conclusions : ecological lessons from northwest Native Americans / Robert Boyd.

ISBN:

9780870714597 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0870714597 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)40545403

LCCN:

98054743

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)