Volcán Villarrica and burned forest
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Title
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Volcán Villarrica and burned forest
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Creator
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Rector, John Lawrence, 1943-
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Date
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1967
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Type
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Image; StillImage
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Description
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Fires in the 1940s burned many of the Chilean forests. Until the late 1960s landowners often used "roce a fuego" (slash and burn) to clear land they wanted to plant with a grain. In 1980 the Ministry of Agriculture established strict criteria for "roce a fuego."
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Scanned image from slides using the Epson Expression 10000 XL as a tif image (1200 dpi, pixel dimensions- width: 1531, height: 1016) and converted into jpg for access purposes
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Identifier
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omeka/143
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Spatial Coverage
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Caburgua (Chile)