• 2019), "Chapter Nineteen. The Use of Fire by Native Americans in California", Fire in California's Ecosystems, University of California Press, pp. 381–398...
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    Fire ecology Fire-stick farming Native American use of fire in ecosystems Wildfire suppression "Managing Brush Fires" (PDF). February 2017. "What is Hazard...
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    Introduced species Invasive species Native American use of fire in ecosystems Naturalisation Neophyte Satoyama Social forestry in India Urban wildlife Herbert...
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    Native Americans (also called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans) are the Indigenous peoples of the United States, particularly...
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  • important to have a diversity of different fire ages, to encourage biodiversity. Native American use of fire in ecosystems Biochar Fire regime Shifting cultivation...
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    Fire ecology is a scientific discipline concerned with the effects of fire on natural ecosystems. Many ecosystems, particularly prairie, savanna, chaparral...
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    at which there is a fire. Some camps refer to the fire itself as a campfire. A new analysis of burned antelope bones from caves in Swartkrans, South Africa...
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    Wildfire (redirect from Bush fire)
    bushfire (in Australia), desert fire, grass fire, hill fire, peat fire, prairie fire, vegetation fire, or veld fire. Some natural forest ecosystems depend...
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    An ecosystem, short for ecological system, is defined as a collection of interacting organisms within a biophysical environment.: 458  Ecosystems are never...
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    agriculture in the United States Holocene extinction#Americas, extinction of species caused by human action Native American use of fire in ecosystems Environmental...
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    burns as a way of clearing excessive forest debris and making landscapes more resilient to wildfires. Native American use of fire in ecosystem management...
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    woodlands of North America, consisting of a mixed woodland-grassland ecosystem, were maintained by both natural lightning fires and by Native Americans before...
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  • of Australia. Fire-stick farming Native American use of fire in ecosystems Biochar Controlled burn Bird, Rebecca B., et al. “Burning in the Rainforests:...
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    Fire in California's Ecosystems. University of California Press. pp. 417. ISBN 978-0-520-24605-8. Anderson, M. Kat (2006). Tending the Wild: Native American...
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    and animal species, and is one of the most biodiverse in North America. Once one of the largest ecosystems in North America, from Virginia south to Florida...
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  • wildland fire use, or the allowing of fire to act as a tool, such as the case with controlled burns. Native American use of fire in ecosystems are part of the...
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    weeds. Another example of anthropogenic disturbance is controlled burns used by Native Americans to maintain fire-dependent ecosystems. These disturbances...
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  • Mannahatta Project (category Environment of New York City)
    formative impact of Native American use of fire in ecosystems. It culminated in 2009 for the 400th anniversary with the publication of the book Mannahatta:...
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    Prairie Peninsula (category Grasslands of the United States)
    that the Native American use of fire in ecosystem management contributed to the formation and maintenance of the ecosystem. The formation of the peninsula...
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    Chaparral (redirect from Fire followers)
    ecosystem in many ways; they inhibit the re-establishment of native species, promote shorter term fire frequency, and change chemical composition of soils...
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    Bromus tectorum (category Bunchgrasses of Africa)
     snyderi) in western North America.     The availability of native seed always is a limiting factor in restoration of sagebrush ecosystems after a rangeland...
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    Artemisia filifolia (category Plants used in traditional Native American medicine)
    sand sage and sandhill sage, is a species of flowering plant in the aster family. It is native to North America, where it occurs from Nevada east to South...
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    While ecosystem management can be used as part of a plan for wilderness conservation, it can also be used in intensively managed ecosystems (e.g., agroecosystems...
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    Lantana camara (category Flora of Central America)
    camara (common lantana) is a species of flowering plant in the verbena family (Verbenaceae), native to the American tropics. It is a very adaptable species...
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    Ecosystem health is a metaphor used to describe the condition of an ecosystem. Ecosystem condition can vary as a result of fire, flooding, drought, extinctions...
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    balance to ecosystems. From 1972, the National Park Service began allowing natural fires in Yellowstone to burn under controlled conditions. Fires of this type...
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    to be fire-dependent ecosystems. Regular controlled burning by Native Americans, practices developed through observation of non-anthropogenic fire and its...
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  • of fire ecology, and renewal for certain types of ecosystems. A fire regime describes the spatial and temporal patterns and ecosystem impacts of fire...
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    Mesquite (category Garden plants of North America)
    because they are highly aggressive in both their native and introduced ranges. Their impacts on the invaded ecosystems include changes to hydrological,...
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    Saguaro (category Plants used in Native American cuisine)
    Most Sonoran desert ecosystems have a fire return interval greater than 250 years; buffelgrass thrives at fire return intervals of two to three years....
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