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Indigenous impacts on North American Great Plains fire regimes of the past millennium
Fire use has played an important role in human evolution and subsequent dispersals across the globe, yet the relative importance of human activity and climate on fire regimes is controversial. This is particularly true for historical fire regimes of…
Author(s): Christopher I. Roos, María Nieves Zedeño, Mary M. H. Erlick
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A Global Analysis of Hunter-Gatherers, Broadcast Fire Use, and Lightning-Fire-Prone Landscapes
We examined the relationships between lightning-fire-prone environments, socioeconomic metrics, and documented use of broadcast fire by small-scale hunter-gatherer societies. Our approach seeks to re-assess human-fire dynamics in biomes that are…
Author(s): Michael R. Coughlan, Brian I. Magi, Kelly M. Derr
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When Scientists “Discover” What Indigenous People Have Known For Centuries
Our knowledge of what animals do when humans aren’t around has steadily increased over the last 50 years. For example, we know now that animals use tools in their daily lives. Chimps use twigs to fish for termites; sea otters break open shellfish on…
Author(s): George Nicholas
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Tribal fire and forest management: Confederated Salish-Kootenai fire history, philosophy, and resource management strategies
Within the ancestral homelands of the Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribes (CSKT), the Fire Continuum Conference (May 2018) discussed the complexity of wildland fire and fuels research and management. The CSKT fieldtrip took place on the Flathead…
Author(s): Monique D. Wynecoop
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