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The benefits of forest management have been seen throughout history, and natives knew the dangers of letting forests become overly dense. [18] Fire was used to keep large areas of forest and mountains free of undergrowth for hunting or travel. It also was a tool to help manage natural resources such as food.
These covered 36% of the region's land and 52% of the upland areas. Of this, less than 1% of the unaltered forest still stands. [9] In the Eastern Deciduous Forest, frequent fires kept open areas that supported herds of bison. Agricultural Native Americans extensively burned a substantial portion of this forest.
The Grass Fire (1908) by Frederic Remington depicts Native American men setting fire to a grassy plain. Native American use of fire in ecosystems are part of the environmental cycles and maintenance of wildlife habitats that sustain the cultures and economies of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Indigenous peoples have used burning ...
In 2024 a Mexican leader who has long advocated for assisted migration to become a standard climate adaptation tool within North American forestry practices published a short paper concluding that the then-current El Niño had already pushed global temperatures to the 1.5 °C threshold of increase that generates self-reinforcing tipping points ...
Since 1995, the US Forest Service has slowly incorporated burning practices into its forest management policies. [ 10 ] Fire suppression has changed the composition and ecology of North American habitats, including highly fire-dependent ecosystems such as oak savannas [ 54 ] [ 55 ] and canebrakes, [ 56 ] [ 57 ] which are now critically ...
Much of the southeastern United States was once open longleaf pine forest with a rich understory of grasses, sedges, carnivorous plants and orchids. These ecosystems had the highest fire frequency of any habitat, once per decade or less. Without fire, deciduous forest trees invade, and their shade eliminates both the pines and the understory.
Native Americans cleared millions of acres of forest for many reasons, including hunting, farming, berry production, and building materials. [1] Prior to the arrival of European-Americans, about one half of the United States land area was forest, about 1,023,000,000 acres (4,140,000 km 2) estimated in 1630.
Naturally regenerated longleaf pines in DeSoto National Forest, Mississippi. The longleaf pine ecosystem is a temperate coniferous forest ecosystem found within the Southern United States. Spanning pine savannas, sandhills and montane forests, it includes many rare plant and animal species, and is one of the most biodiverse in North America. [1]