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The great fires : Indian burning and catastrophic forest fire patterns of the Oregon Coast Range, 1491-1951

Creator:

Zybach, Bob

Abstract:

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between land management practices of Indian communities prior to contact with Europeans and the nature or character of subsequent catastrophic forest fires in the Oregon Coast Range. The research focus is spatial and temporal patterns of Indian burning across the...

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Full Text:

Indian Burning and Afforestation 434 Oregon Coast Range Forest Fire History, 1491-2003 435 "Alseya
Using oral histories to document changing forest cover patterns : Soap Creek Valley, Oregon, 1500-1999

Creator:

Zybach, Bob

Abstract:

This thesis examines forest history of a portion of the Douglas-fir Region: Soap Creek Valley, a 15,000 acre sub-basin of the Luckiamute River in northern Benton County, Oregon. The primary reasons for the research were to test oral history methodology, document sub-basin scale forest cover pattern changes, and determine basic...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis