Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book

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

Publication Info. Washington, DC : Island Press, [2002]
©2002

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (xv, 315 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
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.
Summary 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.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- West (U.S.)
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs.
Indians of North America.
Manners and customs.
Landscapes -- West (U.S.)
Landscapes.
Fire ecology -- West (U.S.)
Fire ecology.
West (U.S.) -- Environmental conditions -- History.
Chronological Term Vor- und Frühgeschichte (Epoche)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Vale, Thomas R., 1943-
Other Form: Print version: Fire, native peoples, and the natural landscape. Washington, DC : Island Press, ©2002 (DLC) 2002283597 (OCoLC)49361568
ISBN 1417595787 (electronic book)
9781417595785 (electronic book)
1559638885 (cloth)
1559638893 (paper)
9781559638883 (cloth)
9781559638890 (paper)