Fire Refs. Possible Review Articles if you are having trouble finding something.

These first two are excellent:

Gavin, D.G. Brubaker, L.B. and K.P. Lertzman 2003. Holocene fire hisotry of a Coastal temperate rain forest based on soil charcoal radiocarbon dates, Ecology, 84: 186-201.

Hallett, D.J. Lepofsky, D.S., Mathewes, R.W. and K.P. Lertzman 2003. 11,000 years of fire history and climate in the mountain hemlock rain forest of southwestern British Columbia based on sedimentary charcoal, Canadian J. of Forestry Research, 33: 292-312.

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Agee, J.K. 1993. Fire Ecology of Pacific Northwest forests, Island Press, Washington DC. Individual chapters are very good.

Benedicct, J.B. 2002. Eolian deposition of forest-fire charcoal above tree-limit, Colorado Front Range, USA: potential contanimation of AMS radiocarbon samples, Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 34: 33-37.

Boyd, R. (1999) Indians, Fire, and the Land in the Pacific Northwest , , 313pp. From: http://www.osu.orst.edu/dept/press/IndiansFireIntro.html

Cannon, S.H., P.S. Powers, R.A. Pihl, and W.P. Rogers (1995) PRELIMINARY EVALUATION OF THE FIRE-RELATED DEBRIS FLOWS ON STORM KING MOUNTAIN, GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLORADO, USGS Open File Report 95-508 (http://landslides.usgs.gov/html_files/ofr95-508/skrep.html)

Carcaillet, C. 2001. Are Holocene wood-charcoal fragments stratified in alpine and subalpine soils? Evidence from the Alps based on AMS 14C dates, Holocene, 11: 231-242.

Cwyynar, L.C. 1987. Fire and forest history of the North Cascades Range, Ecology, 68: 791-802.

Gardiner, J.J. and C. Whitlock 2001. Charcoal accumulation following a recent fire in the Cascades Range, northwestern USA, and its relevance for fire-hisotry studies, Holocene, 11: 541-549.

Gavin, D.G. (2001) Estimation of inbuilt age in radiocarbon ages of soil charcoal for fire history studies. Radiocarbon, 43(1): 27-44.

Gavin, D.G., Brubaker, L.B., and K.P. Lertzman 2003. Holocene fire hisotry of a Coastal temperate rain forest based on soil charcoal radiocarbon dates, Ecology, 84: 186-201.

Hallett, D.J., Lepofsky, D.S., Mathewes, R.W. and K.P. Lertzman 2003. 11,000 years of fire history and climate in the mountain hemlock rain forest of southwestern British Columbia based on sedimentary charcoal, Canadian J. of Forestry Research, 33: 292-312.

Huff, M.H. 1995 Forest age structure and development following wildfires in the western Olympic Mountains, Ecological Appliciatons, 5: 471-483.

Lertzman, K.P., Gavin, D.G., Hallett, D.J., Brubaker, L.B., Lepofsky, D.S., and R. Mathewes 2002. Long-term fire regime estimated from soil charcoal in coastal temperate rainforests, Conservation Ecology, www.consecol.org/vol6/iss2/art5>.

Meyer, G.A., Wells, S.G., 1997, Fire-Related Sedimentation Events on Alluvial Fans, Yellowstone National Park, USA, Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 67, n. 5, p. 776-791.

Potash and Agee 1998 The effect of fire on red heather Canadian J. of Botany, vol. 76: 428-433.

Rorig, M.L. and S.A. Ferguson 1999 Characteristics of lightning and wildland fire ignition I nthe Pacific Northwest, Journal of Applied Meteorology, 38: 1565-1575.

Scott, D.F. and D.B. Van Wyk, 1990. The effects of wildfire on soil wettability and hydrological behavior of an afforested catchment, Journal of Hydrology, 121: 239-256.

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