Factors Contributing to the Cultural and Spatial Variability of Landscape Burning by Native Peoples of Interior Alaska

Factors Contributing to the Cultural and Spatial Variability of Landscape Burning by Native Peoples of Interior Alaska

Although wildfire has been central to the ecological dynamics of Interior Alaska for 5000 yr, the role of humans in this dynamic is not well known. As a multidisciplinary research team, together with native community partners, we analyzed patterns of human-fire interaction in two contiguous areas of...

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Main Authors: David C. Natcher, Monika Calef, Orville Huntington, Sarah Trainor, Henry P. Huntington, La'ona DeWilde, Scott Rupp, F. Stuart. Chapin III
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2007-06-01
Series:Ecology and Society
Subjects:
Alaska
Gwich'in
human-fire interaction
indigenous Koyukon
land management
landscape burning.
Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss1/art7/

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