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Influences of Native American land use on the Colonial Euro-American settlement of the South Carolina Piedmont by Coughlan, Michael R, Nelson, Donald R

“…We test the hypothesis that prehistoric Native American land use influenced the Euro-American settlement process in a South Carolina Piedmont landscape. Long…”
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Exceptional variability in historical fire regimes across a western Cascades landscape, Oregon, USA by Johnston, James D., Schmidt, Micah R., Merschel, Andrew G., Downing, William M., Coughlan, Michael R., Lewis, David G.

“…Detailed information about the historical range of variability in wildfire activity informs adaptation to future climate and disturbance regimes. Here, we…”
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Prescribed fire placement matters more than increasing frequency and extent in a simulated Pacific Northwest landscape by Deak, Alison L., Lucash, Melissa S., Coughlan, Michael R., Weiss, Shelby, Silva, Lucas C. R.

“…Prescribed fire has been increasingly promoted to reduce wildfire risk and restore fire‐adapted ecosystems. Yet, the complexities of forest ecosystem dynamics…”
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Historical Land Use Dynamics in the Highly Degraded Landscape of the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory by Coughlan, Michael, Nelson, Donald, Lonneman, Michael, Block, Ashley

“…Processes of land degradation and regeneration display fine scale heterogeneity often intimately linked with land use. Yet, examinations of the relationships…”
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Farmers, flames, and forests: Historical ecology of pastoral fire use and landscape change in the French Western Pyrenees, 1830–2011 by Coughlan, Michael R.

“…•Associations between pastoral fire and land use change are described.•Topography provides a key control for land and fire use preferences.•Social institutions…”
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Wildland Arson as Clandestine Resource Management: A Space–Time Permutation Analysis and Classification of Informal Fire Management Regimes in Georgia, USA by Coughlan, Michael R.

“…Forest managers are increasingly recognizing the value of disturbance-based land management techniques such as prescribed burning. Unauthorized, “arson” fires…”
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Documenting Twenty Years of the Contracted Labor-Intensive Forestry Workforce on National Forest System Lands in the United States by Deak, Alison, Huber-Stearns, Heidi, Crandall, Mindy, Poudel, Kamana, Davis, Emily Jane, Coughlan, Michael R, Wilmsen, Carl

“…Abstract This paper presents the first nationwide analysis detailing the scope and scale of labor-intensive forestry contracts performed on National Forest…”
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Traditional fire-use, landscape transition, and the legacies of social theory past by Coughlan, Michael R.

“…Fire-use and the scale and character of its effects on landscapes remain hotly debated in the paleo-and historical-fire literature. Since the second half of…”
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A generalizable framework for enhanced natural climate solutions by Silva, Lucas C. R., Wood, Mary C., Johnson, Bart R., Coughlan, Michael R., Brinton, Heather, McGuire, Krista, Bridgham, Scott D.

“…Background The natural removal of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the atmosphere through land conservation, restoration, and management is receiving increasing…”
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Piloting a Climate-Change Adaptation Index on US National Forest Lands by Coughlan, Michael R, Huber-Stearns, Heidi, Schultz, Courtney

“…Abstract Climate change presents a novel and significant threat to the sustainability of forest ecosystems worldwide. The United States Forest Service (USFS)…”
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The social-ecological landscape of herding on the high mountain commons of Larrau in the western Pyrenees (France) by Gragson, Ted L, Coughlan, Michael R.

“…IntroductionMuch has been written about herding, pastoralism and the ethos of the commons that persists in Soule and the valley republics of the western…”
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Socioeconomic Trajectories of 10 Rural Federal Forest-Based Communities in the American Pacific Northwest by Coughlan, Michael R., Adams, Mark D. O., Huber-Stearns, Heidi, Kohler, Gabriel, Rhodeland, Amelia

“…Since the 1980s, many rural forest-based communities in the United States Pacific Northwest have experienced negative shifts in their socioeconomic well-being…”
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Changes in Relationships between the USDA Forest Service and Small, Forest-Based Communities in the Northwest Forest Plan Area amid Declines in Agency Staffing by Santo, Anna R, Coughlan, Michael R, Huber-Stearns, Heidi, Adams, Mark D O, Kohler, Gabriel

“…Abstract This article explores the changing relationships between the USDA Forest Service and 10 small, forest-based communities in the Northwest Forest Plan…”
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USDA Forest Service Employee Diversity During a Period of Workforce Contraction by Westphal, Lynne M, Dockry, Michael J, Kenefic, Laura S, Sachdeva, Sonya S, Rhodeland, Amelia, Locke, Dexter H, Kern, Christel C, Huber-Stearns, Heidi R, Coughlan, Michael R

“…We analyzed USDA Forest Service (Forest Service) employment data from 1995 to 2017, by race and ethnicity, gender, as well as race/ethnicity and gender, to…”
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Living on a flammable planet: interdisciplinary, cross-scalar and varied cultural lessons, prospects and challenges by Roos, Christopher I., Scott, Andrew C., Belcher, Claire M., Chaloner, William G., Aylen, Jonathan, Bird, Rebecca Bliege, Coughlan, Michael R., Johnson, Bart R., Johnston, Fay H., McMorrow, Julia, Steelman, Toddi

“…Living with fire is a challenge for human communities because they are influenced by socio-economic, political, ecological and climatic processes at various…”
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Pre-contact Indigenous fire stewardship: a research framework and application to a Pacific Northwest temperate rainforest by Coughlan, Michael R., Johnston, James D., Derr, Kelly M., Lewis, David G., Johnson, Bart R.

“…Fire is a key disturbance process that shapes the structure and function of montane temperate rainforest in the Pacific Northwest (PNW). Recent research is…”
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Event History Analysis of Parcel Extensification and Household Abandonment in Pays Basque, French Pyrenees, 1830–1958 AD by Coughlan, Michael R, Gragson, Ted L

“…This paper examines local processes of agricultural abandonment, socioeconomic changes, and associated landscape transition in a Pyrenean mountain village. We…”
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Fire as a dimension of historical ecology: a response to Bowman et al. (2011) by Coughlan, Michael R., Petty, Aaron M.

“…Bowman et al. (Journal of Biogeography, 2011, 38, 2223—2236) attempt a synthesis of the current status of study into human use of fire as an ecosystem…”
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A collaborative agenda for archaeology and fire science by Snitker, Grant, Roos, Christopher I., Sullivan, Alan P., Maezumi, S. Yoshi, Bird, Douglas W., Coughlan, Michael R., Derr, Kelly M., Gassaway, Linn, Klimaszewski-Patterson, Anna, Loehman, Rachel A.

“…Humans have influenced global fire activity for millennia and will continue to do so into the future. Given the long-term interaction between humans and fire,…”
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Unauthorized Firesetting as Socioecological Disturbance: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Incendiary Wildfires in Georgia, USA, 1987–2010 by Coughlan, Michael R.

“…I analyzed the spatiotemporal patterning of intentional, unauthorized landscape fires in the state of Georgia, USA, for the years 1987 through 2010 with the…”
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