Title: Fire, native peoples, and the natural landscape
Description: 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.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Indians of North America, Nature, Effect of human beings on, Environmental conditions, Fire ecology, Landscape, History, Landscapes, Nature, effect of human beings on, United states, environmental conditions, Indians of north america, social life and customs
Places: West (U.S.)., West (U.S.)