Fire Meets the Past: Archaeological Site Thinning on the Jemez Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of the Eastern Jemez Mountain Range and the Pajarito Plateau: Interagency Collaboration for Management of Cultural Landscapes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Southwest Jemez Mountain Landscape Restoration project located in the Jemez Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest in New Mexico encompasses approximately 116,000 acres. To increase resilience against undesirable, large-scale fires, a number of landscape scale treatments were implemented, one being prescribed burning. As 90% of the 3,045 known archaeological sites are considered fire-sensitive, the Archaeological Site Thinning project was implemented in 2013. Now that over 1,500 archaeological sites have been treated, Jemez Ranger District archaeologists are able to compare and contrast the effects fire has on sites with various levels of fuels treatment as well as treatment needs across different fuel types.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Archaeologies of the Eastern Jemez Mountain Range and the Pajarito Plateau: Interagency Collaboration for Management of Cultural Landscapes   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 24120