Society for California Archaeology 2010 Annual Meeting

Society for California Archaeology Annual Meeting 2010 105
SIEFKIN, Nelson
National Park Service
Brief Introduction to the Effects of Wildland Fires and Fire Management Activities
Cultural Resources
• Symposium 2 (Victoria South); Thursday, 1:00 PM
Wildland fires and actions taken to manage them can have detrimental consequences for cultural
resources. This presentation summarizes the main processes--direct, operational and indirect--
through which cultural resource attributes can be transformed. Direct impacts include those
resulting from fire and associated by products like smoke, operational impacts occur due to fire
management activities such as fireline construction and post-fire seeding, while indirect impacts
like erosion and looting derive from adverse post-fire conditions. For a variety of reasons,
ranging from ecosystem disequilibrium to climate change, cultural resources will be increasingly
exposed to these phenomena in the 21st century.
SIEFKIN, Nelson
National Park Service
GASSAWAY, Linn;
Sequoia National Forest
HANGAN, Margaret
Kaibab National Forest
HANSON, Lisa
National Park Service;
KERWIN, William
Bureau of Land Management
KINOSHITA, Jun
Yosemite National Park
Calm Before the Storm: Recommendations for Anticipating and Minimizing Impacts to
Cultural Resources from Wildland Fires
• Symposium 2 (Victoria South); Thursday, 3:45 PM
"Recent experiences have demonstrated preparation and planning as the keys to minimize and
mitigate the impacts of wildland fires and fire management activities on cultural resources. This
presentation provides practical recommendations derived by cultural resource managers who
have spent a considerable amount of time planning for, participating in, and repairing the
damages caused by wildland fires.
SIMMONS, Carrie
BLANCHARD, Jenny H.
Bureau of Land Management, El Centro Field Office
The Future is Now: Energized Archaeology Across the Southern California Landscape and
Some Implications for CRM
• Symposium 3 (De Anza South); Thursday, 2:30 PM
Archaeology in Imperial and San Diego Counties has been energized. There are an
unprecedented number of renewable energy applications proposed for public lands, but there are
also unprecedented opportunities for landscape-level archaeological inventory and evaluation.
Archaeologists in the Colorado Desert are being challenged to create research designs that fulfill