On a wet British Columbia island, historical fires likely were human products
Thursday, November 3, 2016 - 09:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Fire-scarred trees on isolated Hecate Island off British Columbia have helped researchers from two Pacific Northwest universities isolate patterns of wildfires over the past 700 years of climate data. Indigenous populations, they found, likely had a profound effect on fire activity. The human connection became clear after determining that the last fire occurred in 1893, […]