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Title:
Indians, fire, and the land in the Pacific Northwest / edited by Robert T. Boyd ; foreword by Frank K. Lake.
Edition:
Updated edition.
Publisher:
Oregon State University Press,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
xvii, 329 pages : illustrations, 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.
Indigenous peoples--Agriculture--Northwest, Pacific.
Other Authors:
Boyd, Robert T. (Robert Thomas), 1945- editor.
Lake, Frank K., writer of foreword.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Epilogue : twenty-two years later : new directions and a literature review of research on Pacific Northwest Native American use of fire / Robert T. Boyd. Introduction / Robert T. 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 T. Boyd, and Eugene Hunn -- Strategies of Indian burning in the Willamette Valley / Robert T. Boyd -- An ecological history of old prairie areas in southwestern Washington / Estella B. Leopold and Robert T. 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 LaLande and Reg Pullen -- Proto-historical and historical Spokan prescribed burning and stewardship of resource areas / John Alan Ross -- Conclusions : ecological lessons from northwest Native Americans / Robert T. Boyd -- Epilogue : twenty-two years later : new directions and a literature review of research on Pacific Northwest Native American use of fire / Robert T. Boyd.
ISBN:
0870711482
9780870711480
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1268138095
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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