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INDIAN 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
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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.
Sources of Information
Historical Drawings & Photographs
AerialPhotograph
s
Historical Maps
Living Memory and Oral Traditions
1895-96 USGS Coos Bay 30 min Quadrangle Map• Bottomland Prairies• 1868 Coos Fire
•1770 Millicoma Fire•Wagon Roads and Trails
GISCONVERSION
Types of Indian Burning Practices
Northern Coast Range
Eastern Coast Range
WillametteValley, Oregon
1845
1885
Soap CreekValley,Oregon
1914
1989
Western Coast Range
“Indian Trail [from Willamette Valley] to Tidewater”“Alseya Valley” General Land Office survey map, 1856
Alsea Valley North Fork Prairie Trail Network,
1775-2003
Southern Coast Range
Indian Burning Patterns, Oregon Coast Range, ca. 1800
Oregon CoastRange Fuels
*Spruce/hemlock
*Douglas-fir
*Oak grasslands
CONCLUSIONS
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.