气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Native American fire management at an ancient wildland–urban interface in the Southwest United States

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DOI	10.1073/pnas.2018733118
	Native American fire management at an ancient wildland–urban interface in the Southwest United States
	Roos C.I.; Swetnam T.W.; Ferguson T.J.; Liebmann M.J.; Loehman R.A.; Welch J.R.; Margolis E.Q.; Guiterman C.H.; Hockaday W.C.; Aiuvalasit M.J.; Battillo J.; Farella J.; Kiahtipes C.A.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	00278424
卷号	118 期号:4
英文摘要	The intersection of expanding human development and wildland landscapes—the “wildland–urban interface” or WUI—is one of the most vexing contexts for fire management because it involves complex interacting systems of people and nature. Here, we document the dynamism and stability of an ancient WUI that was apparently sustainable for more than 500 y. We combine ethnography, archaeology, paleoecology, and ecological modeling to infer intensive wood and fire use by Native American ancestors of Jemez Pueblo and the consequences on fire size, fire–climate relationships, and fire intensity. Initial settlement of northern New Mexico by Jemez farmers increased fire activity within an already dynamic landscape that experienced frequent fires. Wood harvesting for domestic fuel and architectural uses and abundant, small, patchy fires created a landscape that burned often but only rarely burned extensively. Depopulation of the forested landscape due to Spanish colonial impacts resulted in a rebound of fuels accompanied by the return of widely spreading, frequent surface fires. The sequence of more than 500 y of perennial small fires and wood collecting followed by frequent “free-range” wildland surface fires made the landscape resistant to extreme fire behavior, even when climate was conducive and surface fires were large. The ancient Jemez WUI offers an alternative model for fire management in modern WUI in the western United States, and possibly other settings where local management of woody fuels through use (domestic wood collecting) coupled with small prescribed fires may make these communities both self-reliant and more resilient to wildfire hazards. © 2021 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
英文关键词	Ancestral Pueblo; Cultural burning; Fire history; New Mexico; Ponderosa pine
语种	英语
来源期刊	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/180889
作者单位	Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75205, United States; Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, United States; School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, United States; Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States; US Geological Survey, Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK 99508, United States; Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada; School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada; Archaeology Southwest, Tucson, AZ 85701, United States; New Mexico Field Station, Fort Collins Science Center, US Geological Survey, Santa Fe, NM 87508, United States; Department of Geosciences, Baylor University, Waco, TX 76706, United States; Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, United States; University of Arizona Cooperative Extension, ...
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Roos C.I.,Swetnam T.W.,Ferguson T.J.,等. Native American fire management at an ancient wildland–urban interface in the Southwest United States[J],2021,118(4).
APA	Roos C.I..,Swetnam T.W..,Ferguson T.J..,Liebmann M.J..,Loehman R.A..,...&Kiahtipes C.A..(2021).Native American fire management at an ancient wildland–urban interface in the Southwest United States.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,118(4).
MLA	Roos C.I.,et al."Native American fire management at an ancient wildland–urban interface in the Southwest United States".Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118.4(2021).