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Abstract
Sifting Through the Past: Investigating Landscape Morphology with GISTrack: Ecology, Archaeology, and Conservation
Author(s): Keith W. Rice, Lynne Heasley, Hawthorne Beyer, Ray Guries
The Kickapoo Valley in Wisconsin exemplifies the dramatic change in the Midwestern landscape from agrarian to amalgamated land use. This change was documented and simulated through the use of an extensive temporal GIS that covered a 57-year time period (1939-1995). This study demonstrates that social factors have a strong influence on landscape composition and structure and that these influences can be highly variable over small distances. The difficulties of quantifying social and cultural factors and of merging spatial explicit technology (GIS) in the examination of landscape ecology and environmental history are discussed.
Keith W. Rice
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Science Building
Stevens Point, WI 54481
USA
Phone: 715-346-2629
Fax: 715-346-3372
E-mail: krice@uwsp.edu