| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.3

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.3 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Fire, Native Peoples, and the Natural Landscape. Edited by Thomas R. Vale. (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2002. xv + 315 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliographies, index. $25.00, paper.)

As we begin another fire season in the West—one that prognosticators suggest might equal or surpass that of 2000—we once more look to the role that humans have played and continue to play in local fire regimes. The prevalence of historic anthropogenic fires—those set by early native peoples—remains an active subject of debate among wildfire scholars. Environmental historians fully accept that native groups often used fire strategically to shape their environment in the period prior to European contact. But the question of just how the firebrand was used for agricultural clearing, game acquisition, or defense is a question that spawns debate in the scholarly community.

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