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Title Fire, native peoples, and the natural landscape [electronic resource] / edited by Thomas R. Vale.

Imprint Washington, DC : Island Press, c2002.

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Description xv, 315 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The pre-European landscape of the United States : pristine or humanized? / Thomas R. Vale -- Indians and fire in the Rocky Mountains : the wilderness hypothesis renewed / William L. Baker -- Prehistoric human impacts on fire regimes and vegetation in the northern intermountain West / Duane Griffin -- Fire in the pre-European lowlands of the American Southwest / Kathleen C. Parker -- Lots of lightning and plenty of people : an ecological history of fire in the upland Southwest / Craig D. Allen -- Prehistoric burning in the Pacific Northwest : human versus climatic influences / Cathy Whitlock and Margaret A. Knox -- Fire in Sierra Nevada Forests : evaluating the ecological impact of burning by Native Americans / Albert J. Parker -- Pre-European fire in California chaparral / Jacob Bendix -- Reflections / Thomas R. Vale.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- West (U.S.)
Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs.
Landscapes -- West (U.S.)
Fire ecology -- West (U.S.)
West (U.S.) -- Environmental conditions -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Vale, Thomas R., 1943-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 1559638885 (cloth)
1559638893 (paper)

 
    
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