Author : U. S. Department Agriculture
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781973808350
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (83 download)
Book Synopsis Wildland Fire in Ecosystems Effects of Fire on Cultural Resources and Archaeology by : U. S. Department Agriculture
Download or read book Wildland Fire in Ecosystems Effects of Fire on Cultural Resources and Archaeology written by U. S. Department Agriculture and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This state-of-knowledge review provides a synthesis of the effects of fire on cultural resources, which can be used by fire managers, cultural resource (CR) specialists, and archaeologists to more effectively manage wildland vegetation, fuels, and fire. The goal of the volume is twofold: (1) to provide cultural resource/archaeological professionals and policy makers with a primer on fuels, fire behavior, and fire effects to enable them to work more effectively with the fire management community to protect resources during fuels treatment and restoration projects and wildfire suppression activities; and (2) to provide fire and land management professionals and policy makers with a greater understanding of the value of cultural resource protection and the methods available to evaluate and mitigate risks to CR. The synthesis provides a conceptual fire effects framework for planning, managing, and modeling fire effects and a primer on fire and fuel processes and fire effects prediction modeling. A synthesis of the effects of fire on various cultural resource materials is provided for ceramics, lithics, rock art, historic-period artifacts/materials (chapter 6), and below-ground features. The importance of cultural landscapes to indigenous peoples and emphasizes the need to actively involve native people in the development of collaborative management plans is also discussed. The use and practical implications of this synthesis are the subject of the final chapter.