Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Fire agencies across the US have adopted these tactics. Some are drawing on Native American oral history and traditional ecological knowledge to revive them. Native Americans in California and Australia have known the risk of overgrown forests for millennia and used these tactics to prevent wildfires and encourage beneficial plant growth.
Multiple sites in Europe, such as Torralba and Ambrona, Spain, and St. Esteve-Janson, France, have also shown evidence of the use of fire by later versions of H. erectus. The oldest has been found in England at the site of Beeches Pit, Suffolk; uranium series dating and thermoluminescence dating place the use of fire at 415,000 BP. [32]
Fire behavior associated with persistent drought, high winds and column-driven spread are associated with higher burn severity in western North American forests. However, strong scientific evidence across dry and moist mixed conifer forests demonstrates effectiveness at mitigating burn severity, often even under extreme fire weather conditions
Fire started by lightning has always been a part of the natural life cycle in the Western U.S., and for centuries Native Americans also carried out controlled burns, referred to as cultural burns ...
The Grass Fire (1908) by Frederic Remington depicts Native American men setting fire to a grassy plain. Native American use of fire in ecosystems are part of the environmental cycles and maintenance of wildlife habitats that sustain the cultures and economies of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Indigenous peoples have used burning ...
Lower elevations tended to have more frequent fire return intervals, whilst higher and wetter sites saw longer intervals between fires. Native Americans tended to set fires during fall and winter, and land at higher elevations was generally occupied by Native Americans only during the summer. [67]
Fire history studies have documented regular wildland fires ignited by indigenous peoples in North America and Australia [49] [50] prior to the establishment of colonial law and fire suppression. Native Americans frequently used fire to manage natural environments in a way that benefited humans and wildlife in forests and grasslands by starting ...
Native American use of fire - Other native uses of fire. Terra preta - Use of burning in South America agricultural use rather than grassland. Prairie remnant - Pre-Columbian fire dependent habitats of North America