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Cultural burning is the process of using prescribed burns to manage landscapes, a process used primarily by Indigenous peoples; more specifically the Indigenous ...
Light burning is also been called "Paiute forestry," a direct but derogatory reference to southwestern tribal burning habits. [52] The ecological impacts of settler fires were vastly different than those of their Native American predecessors. Cultural burning practices were functionally made illegal with the passage of the Weeks Act in 1911. [53]
The Cultural Fire Management Council, an Indigenous nonprofit organization dedicated to facilitating the practice of cultural burning on the Yurok Reservation and ancestral lands, currently ...
Fire-stick farming, also known as cultural burning and cool burning, is the practice of Aboriginal Australians regularly using fire to burn vegetation, which has been practised for thousands of years.
The indigenous people of Canada for centuries intentionally set fires on the landscape for a variety of cultural needs. "They burned for medicinal plants, for food plants, to produce firewood, to ...
For the last five years, Indigenous cultural practitioners have been burning at Cache Creek Conservancy. ‘Fire is living’: How this Woodland nature preserve uses cultural burning for regrowth ...
Back burning or a back fire is the term given to the process of lighting vegetation in such a way that it has to burn against the prevailing wind. This produces a slower moving and more controllable fire. Controlled burns utilize back burning during planned fire events to create a "black line" where fire cannot burn through.
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 ...