Protecting Historic Structures during Wildfires

Author(s): Linn Gassaway

Year: 2017

Summary

The increased wildfire activity in Western North America is endangering most if not all historic and prehistoric archaeological sites on American's public lands. This paper looks at how archaeologist can work with fire fighters during these emergencies to protect the most susceptible sites, historic structures and wooden buildings and structures to fire, and how to plan for such event and what steps are needed to best protect these sites during a fire event.

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Protecting Historic Structures during Wildfires. Linn Gassaway. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia. 2017 ( tDAR id: 428844)

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Abstract Id(s): 15253