Edited by Robert T. Boyd, Foreward by Frank K. Lake, New Edition published 2021 by Oregon State University Press
ISBN# 987-0-87071-148-0
Instead of discovering a land blanketed by dense forests, early explorers of the Pacific Northwest encountered a varied landscape including open woods, meadows, and prairies. Far from a pristine wilderness, much of the Northwest was actively managed and shaped by the hands of its Native American inhabitants. Their primary tool was fire. This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to one of the most important issues concerning Native Americans and their relationship to the land. Over more than 10,000 years, Native Americans in the Northwest learned the intricacies of their local environments and how to use fire to create desired effects, mostly in the quest for food.
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Edited by Jared D. Aldern and Theresa Lynn Gregor, published 2026 by Oregon State University Press
ISBN# 978-1-962645-54-6
An interdisciplinary anthology that includes extensive Native views, Landkeeping provides engaging perspectives on the role of Indigenous fire and its importance to our ecological health, cultural continuity, and land-based kinship. Indigenous-identified and non-Indigenous allies and researchers in ecology, natural resource management, forestry, ethnobotany, and Native American/Indigenous Studies demonstrate how Indigenous knowledge offers sustainable, relational approaches to land care and resilience.
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By Stanley A. Rice, Published 2025 by Prometheus Books
ISBN# 978-1-4930-8866-9
North America was thickly populated by indigenous people who lived in clean cities, had a thriving economy, and transformed the landscape into bountiful productivity. Forgotten Landscapes reveals the incredible extent to which Native Americans manipulated and shaped their surrounding environs through agricultural practices and urban engineering, resulting in one of the most prosperous civilizations of their time. Well before European contact, North American cities and villages were bound together by an intricate trade network. Today, Spiro Mound in rural Oklahoma is a few piles of dirt, not on the road to anywhere. But at the time of the Mississippian civilization, about a thousand years ago, it was one of the largest cities in the world.
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By Paul Brannen, published 2024 by Agenda Publishing Limited
ISBN# 978-1-78821-735-4
Covers the environmental advantages of using engineered wood products in building construction up to 18 stories tall.
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Omer C. Stewart was one of the first anthropologists to recognize that Native Americans made significant impact across a wide range of environments. Most important, they regularly used fire to manage plant communities and associated animal species through varied and localized habitat burning. In Forgotten Fires, editors Henry T. Lewis and M. Kat Anderson present Stewart’s original research and insights, presented in the 1950s yet still provocative today.
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Written and edited by Obi Kaufman. Published 2024 by Heyday. ISBN: 978-1-59714-651-7.
A very artistic and interesting book focusing on the Indigenous Californians and their extensive use of fire to manipulate the environment over millennia, with a detailed, ecological perspective.
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Established in 1976, the ITC is a nonprofit nation-wide consortium of Indian Tribes, Alaska Native Corporations, and individuals dedicated to improving the management of natural resources of importance to Native American communities.The ITC works cooperatively with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), private industry, and academia to explore issues and identify practical strategies and initiatives to promote social, economic and ecological values while protecting and utilizing forests, soil, water, and wildlife.
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Peer-Reviewed Papers
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Citable references provided by Dr. Frank Lake.
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and management in the area of the Northwest Forest Plan. USDA Forest
Service, PNW-GTR-966. encyclopedia.pub
Franklin, J.F., & Dryness, C.T. 1973. Natural Vegetation of Oregon and Washington.
USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station,
General Technical Report PNW-8.
Spies, T.A., & Franklin, J.F. 1991. The structure of natural young, mature, and old-growth Douglas-fir forests in Oregon and
Washington. In Wildlife and Vegetation of Unmanaged Douglas-fir Forests
(Ecus, ed.), USFS Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-285.
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Runkle, J.R. 1982. Patterns of disturbance in some old-growth mesic forests of eastern North America. Ecology 63(5):1533–1546.
Connell, J.H., & Slatyer, R.O. 1977. Mechanisms of succession in natural communities
and their role in community stability and organization. American
Naturalist 111(982):1119–1144.
Puettmann, K.J., Coates, K.D., & Messier, C. 2009. A Critique of Silviculture:
Managing for Complexity. Island Press.
Halpern, C.B., Spies, T.A., Robinson, W.D., et al. 1999. Changes in forest
structure and composition across the Pacific Northwest. Ecological
Applications 9(4):954–970.
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Forest Stand Dynamics, 2nd ed. Wiley.
Van Pelt, R. 2007. Identifying Old Trees and Forests in Pacific Northwest Forests. University of Washington Press.