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  2. Controlled burn - Wikipedia

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    A controlled burn or prescribed burn (Rx burn) is the practice of intentionally setting a fire to change the assemblage of vegetation and decaying material in a landscape. The purpose could be for forest management , ecological restoration , land clearing or wildfire fuel management.

  3. Native American use of fire in ecosystems - Wikipedia

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    The baskets must be woven with straight branches, and they need to be burned to do so. Acorns and salmon, which are native food sources, are also affected by Indigenous-prescribed burns. [65] Don L Hankins conducted a study to understand the effects of Indigenous prescribed burning on different aspects of riparian fauna. They found a generally ...

  4. History of wildfire suppression in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Forest Service enacted similar measures in 1974 by changing its policy from fire control to fire management, allowing lightning fires to burn in wilderness areas. This included both naturally caused fire and intentional prescribed fire. [12]

  5. U.S. Forest Service pauses prescribed burns, announces ... - AOL

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  6. Prescribed burn to char 400 acres in nature preserve south of ...

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  7. Cultural burning - Wikipedia

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    Recently efforts have been undertaken by the Canada Parks system to incorporate prescribed burns. What they have found is a reduction in wildfire intensity in parks using prescribed burns though they did uncover some problems. In area with prescribed burns and a high herbivore population experience negative effects regarding in sapling occurrence.

  8. List of Arizona wildfires - Wikipedia

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    On June 25, six firefighters were killed in a burn over. Including the first female wildland firefighter killed in Arizona. It was Arizona's worst forest fire in history at the time. Lightning Ponderosa Pine / Pine-Oak woodland Coconino 28,000 ac 44 sq.mi. 11,331 ha 63 6 0 1994 Rattlesnake Fire Scorched the peak of Chiricahua Peak in Douglas ...

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