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Intertidal Resource Use Over Millennia Enhances Forest Productivity
Human occupation is usually associated with degraded landscapes but 13,000 years of repeated occupation by British Columbia’s coastal First Nations has had the opposite effect,... -
Ecological Legacies of Anthropogenic Burning in a British Columbia Coastal Te...
ABSTRACT Aim: Few long-term fire histories have been reconstructed in coastal temperate rain forests, and little is known regarding the spatial and temporal characteristics of... -
Seven Hundred Years of Human-Driven and Climate-Influenced Fire Activity in a...
ABSTRACT While wildland fire is globally most common at the savannah grassland ecotone, there is little evidence of fire in coastal temperate rainforests. We reconstructed fire... -
The Right to Burn: Barriers and Opportunities for Indigenous-Led Fire Steward...
ABSTRACT Indigenous fire stewardship enhances ecosystem diversity, assists with the management of complex resources, and reduces wildfire risk by lessening fuel loads. Although... -
Conservation of Earth's Biodiversity is Embedded in Indigenous Fire Stewardship
ABSTRACT Increasingly, severe wildfires have led to declines in biodiversity across all of Earth’s vegetated biomes [D. B. McWethy et al., Nat. Sustain. 2, 797–804 (2019)].... -
Western Canada’s New Wildfire Reality Needs a New Approach to Fire Management
INTRODUCTION Wildfire seasons in Canada are changing. Recent uncharacteristically large and intense wildfires have exceeded abilities for fire suppression, highlighting the...