Indians, Fire, and the Land in the Pacific Northwest
Table of Contents
Introduction
Robert Boyd
Aboriginal Control of Huckleberry Yield in the Northwest
David French
Indian Land Use and Environmental Change
Island Country, 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 Peoples 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 "Fine and Beautiful Open Country"
Native Uses of Fire in Southwestern Oregon
Jeff LaLande and Reg Pullen
Proto-historical and Historical Spokan Prescribed Burning and Stewardship of Resource Areas
John Ross
Conclusion
Ecological Lessons from Northwest Native Americans
Robert Boyd
Contributors
Index
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