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  2. Pyrography - Wikipedia

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    The King Wolf, pyrography on olive wood by Roberto Frangioni Piroritrattista Framàr. Pyrography or pyrogravure is the free handed art of decorating wood or other materials with burn marks resulting from the controlled application of a heated object such as a poker. It is also known as pokerwork or wood burning. [1]

  3. Pre-Columbian woodlands of North America - Wikipedia

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    Intentional burning of vegetation was taken up to mimic the effects of natural fires that tended to clear forest understories, thereby making travel easier and facilitating the growth of herbs and berry-producing plants that were important for both food and medicines. [6]

  4. Wildfire - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Controlled burn - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Native American use of fire in ecosystems - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Eastern woodlands of the United States - Wikipedia

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    There was nearly annual burning throughout the Northeast. [7] After the death of 90% of the native population around 500 years ago, grasslands, savanna, and woodlands succeeded to closed forest. After European settlement of the region the burning frequency was 2–10 years, with many sites burned annually.

  8. Cultural burning - Wikipedia

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    This method of management was a form of cultural burning that maintained the savannah and wetland prairie system of the peninsula's low land environments.In 2008 it was found that after the suppression of these burns the area has since been forested by Douglas Firs with a decrease in the Bear Grass population.

  9. Slash-and-burn - Wikipedia

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    Slash-and-burn agriculture is a farming method that involves the cutting and burning of plants in a forest or woodland to create a field called a swidden.The method begins by cutting down the trees and woody plants in an area.