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

Other author Boyd, Robert, 1948-
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoCorvallis, Or. : Oregon State University Press, ©1999.
Description313 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 98054743
ISBN0870714597 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks E78.N77 I53 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold