Factors contributing to the cultural and spatial variability of landscape burning by native peoples of interior Alaska

Ecology and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Natcher, David C ^a   Calef, Monika ^b   Huntington, Orville ^c   Trainor, Sarah ^d   Huntington, Henry P ^e   DeWilde, La'ona ^f   Rupp, Scott ^d   Chapin III, F Stuart ^d  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Alaska Native Science Commission   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^e Huntington Consulting   (United States)

^f Yukon River Inter Tribal Watershed Council   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Gwich'in; Human fire interaction; Indigenous Koyukon; Land management; Landscape burning

Indexed keywords

BURNING; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LAND MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE PROTECTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; WILDFIRE;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 34447320451     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-01999-120107     Document Type: Article

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