Physical Description:313 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. print
Edition:1st ed.
Publisher:Corvallis, Or. : Oregon State University Press, c1999.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction / Robert Boyd -- Aboriginal Control of Huckleberry Yield in the Northwest / David French -- Indian Land Use and Environmental Change: Island County, 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.