Restoring Indian-Set Fires to Prairie Ecosystems on the Olympic Peninsula

Wray, Joanne; Anderson, M. Kat

doi:10.3368/er.21.4.296

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“…Much of the pre-European settlement Peninsula lowlands were characterized by a mosaic of prairies, savannas, and woodlands in a forest matrix (Kruckeberg 1991:284;Peter 2001). There is evidence dating to 3,500 years ago indicating that Native Americans burned the land repeatedly to maintain the diverse landscape and ensure the presence of culturally important resources (Wray and Anderson 2003).…”

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Weaving Traditional Ecological Knowledge into the Restoration of Basketry Plants

Shebitz¹

2005

JEA

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Section: Case Study Ii: Knowledge Of Land Management Methods To Restomentioning

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Weaving Traditional Ecological Knowledge into the Restoration of Basketry Plants

Shebitz¹

2005

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“…Deep and persistent shade alters leaf properties and plant morphology and likely results in decreased plant fitness. a It should be noted that although indigenous use of fire in maintaining habitats is inarguable, the details of traditional burning strategies are often not clear (Wray and Anderson 2003). In some tribal groups, understanding of burning techniques and ecosystem effects was specialized knowledge, possessed by only a few individuals, and thus may not have been passed down through time.…”

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Natural and cultural history of beargrass (<em>Xerophyllum tenax</em>)

Hummel¹,

Foltz-Jordan²,

Polasky³

2012

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“…Many hardwoods such as oaks, madrone (Arbutus menziesii), and bigleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum) also form valued large, old trees, although they depend upon fire to deter conifers from overtopping them. Research has demonstrated that burning, digging, thinning, trimming, weeding, and other interventions are important for sustaining the productivity and availability of many edible berries, Ecology and Society 23(2): 10 https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol23/iss2/art10/ roots, mushrooms, and seeds, along with other ecocultural resources that come from early successional forest openings or persistent nonforest communities (Turner and Cocksedge 2001, Wray and Anderson 2003, Peter and Shebitz 2006, Hamman et al 2011, Turner et al 2011, Anderson and Lake 2013. These communities support animals, including deer (Odocoileus spp.…”

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Escaping social-ecological traps through tribal stewardship on national forest lands in the Pacific Northwest, United States of America

Long¹,

Lake²

2018

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ABSTRACT. Tribal communities in the Pacific Northwest of the United States of America (USA) have long-standing relationships to ancestral lands now managed by federal land management agencies. In recent decades, federal and state governments have increasingly recognized tribal rights to resources on public lands and to participate in their management. In support of a new planning initiative to promote sustainable land management, we reviewed scientific publications to examine relationships between tribal social-ecological systems and public lands in the region. We identified key ecocultural resources, impacts to those resources, and associated forest ecosystems, and strategies that have been piloted to redress those impacts. We found that many factors stemming from colonization by Euro-Americans have engendered social-ecological traps that have inhibited tribes from continuing traditional land stewardship activities that supported their well-being and maintained ecological integrity. These long-standing factors include legal and political constraints on tribal access and management; declining quality and abundance of forest resources due to inhibition of both natural disturbance and indigenous tending regimes; competition with nontribal users; species extirpations and introductions of invasive species; and erosion of tribal traditional ecological knowledge and relationships that are important for revitalizing resource use. As a consequence, both supply and demand for these forest resources have been reduced, as have the resilience and diversity of these ecosystems. Simply permitting resource harvest by tribal members does not sufficiently address the underlying constraints in ways that will promote tribal well-being. Escaping these traps will require addressing a gamut of ecological and social constraints through cooperative restoration efforts between land management agencies and tribes, several of which we highlight as examples. Because tribally focused restoration strategies generally align with broader strategies suggested to restore national forests in the region, they can foster both tribal well-being and ecological sustainability.

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Restoring Indian-Set Fires to Prairie Ecosystems on the Olympic Peninsula

Cited by 27 publications

References 5 publications

Weaving Traditional Ecological Knowledge into the Restoration of Basketry Plants

Weaving Traditional Ecological Knowledge into the Restoration of Basketry Plants

Natural and cultural history of beargrass (<em>Xerophyllum tenax</em>)

Escaping social-ecological traps through tribal stewardship on national forest lands in the Pacific Northwest, United States of America

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