Title: INDIAN BURNING AND WILDLIFE HABITAT PATTERNS OF THE OREGON COAST RANGE, 14912004
1INDIAN BURNING AND WILDLIFE HABITAT PATTERNS OF
THE OREGON COAST RANGE, 1491-2004
- Oregon Chapter of the Wildlife Society Annual
Meeting - Bend, Oregon, February 12, 2004
- Bob Zybach, PhD, Forest Fire History Land Use
Ecologist - OSU Department of Forest Sciences
- Five Rivers Landscape Management Study
- USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research
Station -
2- Current evidence suggests patterns of late-15th
to mid-19th century Indian burning and other land
management practices had a direct effect on
Oregon Coast Range wildlife populations and
habitat conditions. - The cultural legacy of these practices persist in
transitional forest and grassland patterns of the
present time.
3Sources of Information
4Historical Drawings Photographs
5 6Historical Maps
7Living Memory and Oral Traditions
81895-96 USGS Coos Bay 30 min Quadrangle Map
GIS C O N V E R S I O N
- Bottomland Prairies
- 1868 Coos Fire
- 1770 Millicoma Fire
- Wagon Roads and Trails
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13Types of Indian Burning Practices
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16Northern Coast Range
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21Eastern Coast Range
22- Willamette
- Valley, Oregon
- 1845
- 1885
23- Soap Creek
- Valley,
- Oregon
- 1914
- 1989
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25Western Coast Range
26- Indian Trail from Willamette Valley to
Tidewater - Alseya Valley General Land Office survey map,
1856
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29Alsea Valley North Fork Prairie Trail Network,
1775-2003
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33Southern Coast Range
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36Indian Burning Patterns, Oregon Coast Range, ca.
1800
37- Oregon Coast
- Range Fuels
- Spruce/hemlock
- Douglas-fir
- Oak grasslands
38CONCLUSIONS Precontact Indian burning practices
had a direct effect on Oregon Coast Range
wildlife populations and habitat patterns. The
cultural legacy of these practices persist in
transitional forest and grassland patterns of the
present time.