Here are two USDA publications that might be of interest to some of you.

The “Indigenous Stewardship Methods and NRCS Conservation Practices
Guidebook,” published by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
(NRCS), compares Native American/Native Alaskan perspectives of living in
harmony with the earth with NRCS’s scientific and experiential learning
perspective on resource conservation. It provides a sensitive process in
which knowledge is shared, allowing NRCS employees (and other land
managers) to incorporate indigenous knowledge into government conservation
practices.

“Wildland Fire in Ecosystems: Effects of Fire on Cultural Resources and
Archaeology” is a volume in a U.S. Forest Service series. It notes that
successful implementation of prescribed burning and wildfire suppression
in cultural resources-sensitive areas requires integration of cultural
resources and wildland fire science to minimize negative impacts of land
management activities involving fire as well as fire suppression.
“Wildland Fire” presents the context of contemporary fire use and how fire
management tactics may affect prehistoric and historic cultural resources,
including prehistoric ceramics, flaked and ground stone objects, rock art
(petroglyphs and pictographs), historical sites and artifacts, and
subsurface archaeological deposits. It also describes the significance of
wildland fire and fire management to contemporary communities, and
provides a clear distinction between the definitions of tangible and
intangible resource components, challenging the reader to go beyond the
tangible materials-science and regulatory compliance measures of cultural
resources to integrate the formal, historical, and relational aspects of
landscapes into planning and management of cultural resources.

If the attachment files did not come through to the listserve on which you
are reading this, and you would like a copy of either one, reply to me
directly at [log in to unmask] and I will email the file(s) to you.

 Apologies for cross-posting,

Allen Dart, RPA

State Cultural Resources Specialist/Archaeologist
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
Arizona State Office
230 N. 1st Avenue Suite 509
Phoenix AZ 85003-1723   USA
    602-280-8787 desk, 602-280-8809 fax
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Executive Director
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
PO Box 40577
Tucson AZ 85717-0577    USA
    520-798-1201 office, 520-798-1966 fax
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    URL: www.oldpueblo.org