Fire Suppression and Landscape Change on Outer Cape Cod 1600-1994
Dunwiddie PW and Adams MB. 1995. Fire Suppression and Landscape Change on Outer Cape Cod 1600-1994. NPS/NESO-RNR/NRTR/96-08. National Park Service - New England Support Office. Boston, MA
Fire has been an important force shaping the vegetation on the Lower Cape for thousands of years. This conclusion has been drawn from a variety of studies, including evidence of past fires derived from pollen studies, fossil charcoal in sediment cores, early accounts of Native American agriculture burning, scars on trees, as well as inferences drawn from observed fire behavior in vegetation types that have been historically common in the region's forests.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Dunwiddie, Peter; Adams, Mark
- Date of Issue
- 1995-01
- Publisher
- National Park Service - New England Support Office
- Units
- CACO
- Keywords
- CACO, Fire, landscape change, maps, photos, vegetation, vegetation change
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Landscapes | Fire and Fuel Dynamics | Fire and Fuel Dynamics , Ecological Framework: Landscapes | Landscape Dynamics | Land Cover and Use