Cultural Resource Implications of Wildfires on the Orchard Combat Training Center

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Crucial Issues in United States Department of Defense Cultural Resources Management " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Orchard Combat Training Center (OCTC) is a premier joint combined arms training site, located on the western Snake River Plain in southern Idaho. Military training activities often come with an added risk of wildfire, and like much of the western United States, climate change has increased the probability, extent, and intensity of wildfires in Idaho. As temperatures continue to rise and military training on the OCTC expands, cultural resource implications of wildfire will need to be addressed in the near future. This paper will describe wildfire behavior on the OCTC, identify potential direct and indirect effects of fire on cultural resources, and present appropriate methods for mitigating those effects.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Crucial Issues in United States Department of Defense Cultural Resources Management   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 35675.0