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Filtering by: Subject Indians of North America -- Oregon -- Religion Decade 1950-1959 Resource Type Technical Report

Aboriginal man and white man as historical causes of fires in the boreal forest, with particular reference to Alaska

Creator:

Lutz, H. J. (Harold John), 1900-

Abstract:

The boreal forest of North America is especially liable to destruction by fires. It is a region in which forest fires have been extremely common and wide spreading. Lightning is certainly one of the causes of fires but man, both aboriginal and white, has been an even more prolific source....

Resource Type:

Technical Report

Full Text:

ALASKA INTRODUCTION THE boreal forest of North America extends as a broad transcontinental belt from