Fire, Native Peoples, and the Natural Landscape

Fire in the Natural Landscape provides a critical, research-based assessment of the role of Native Americans in modifying the landscapes of pre-European America. Contributors focus on the western United States and look at the question of fire regimes, the single human impact which could have altered the environment at a broad, landscape scale, and which could have been important in almost any part of the West. Each of the seven chapters is written by a different author about a different subregion of the West, evaluating the question of whether the fire regimes extant at the time of European contact were the product of natural factors or whether ignitions by Native Americans fundamentally changed those regimes.

About the author

Thomas R. Vale is professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin.

Summary

A critical, research-based assessment of the role of native Americans in modifying the landscapes of pre-European America. Focused on the western seaboard, contributors examine the question of fire regimes, the single human impact which could have altered the environment at a broad landscape level.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas R. Vale
• Assisted by: Vale R. Thomas (Editor), Thomas Vale (Editor), Thomas R. Vale (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2002
• EAN: 9781559638890
• ISBN: 978-1-55963-889-0
• Weight: 500 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Indigenous Peoples, History of the Americas, Human Geography, Relating to Native American people, US West, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Native American Studies