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According to legend, Agni, the god of fire, needed to burn down the forest so that he could satisfy his hunger. There was no other thing that would have satisfied his hunger. The Mahabharata states that Indra was the protecting deity of Khandava forest, which is why the region was known as Indraprastha. [4]
Wildfire burning in the Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, United States, in 2020.The Mangum Fire burned more than 70,000 acres (280 km 2) of forest.. A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation.
The result of clearing and burning was, in many regions, the conversion of forest to grassland, savanna, scrub, open woodland, and forest with grassy openings. (William M. Denevan) [17] The benefits of forest management have been seen throughout history, and natives knew the dangers of letting forests become overly dense. [18]
In such a system there is typically no market in farmland, so land is not bought or sold on the open market and land rights are traditional. [citation needed] In slash-and-burn agriculture, forests are typically cut months before a dry season. The "slash" is permitted to dry and then burned in the following dry season.
Podu is a traditional system of cultivation used by tribes in India, whereby different areas of jungle forest are cleared by burning each year to provide land for crops. [1] The word comes from the Telugu language. [2] Podu is a form of shifting agriculture using slash-and-burn methods.
It is difficult to determine when a forest fire is started by a coal-seam fire, or vice versa. [6] The most common cause of forest fires and haze in Indonesia is intentional burning of forest to clear land for plantation crops of pulp wood, rubber and palm oil. No accurate count of coal-seam fires has been completed in Indonesia.
Map of Changa Manga Forest. The Changa Manga forest can be entered from a road off the N-5 Highway near Bhai Pheru and Chunian. At present, the forest covers an area of 48.6 square kilometres (12,000 acres). [8] It was once the largest man-made forest in the world but massive deforestation has reduced it to less than half its original size. [2]
The forest fires also disrupted the functioning of the Kalka–Shimla Railway line. [18] On 3 May, the forest department estimated the monetary losses at approximately ₹ 29 lakh (US$34,000). The estimate is based on the standard rule book followed by the department with empirical formulae for such calculations.