Native people did not use fire to shape New England’s landscape

Wyatt Oswald; David R Foster; Elizabeth Chilton

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Native people did not use fire to shape New England’s landscape

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Native people did not use fire to shape New England’s landscape

Wyatt Oswald, David R Foster and Elizabeth Chilton

The Conversation

01/20/2020

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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/111622

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An interpretive sign stands at the edge of the Montague Plains Wildlife Management Area, a 1,500-acre state conservation property in central Massachusetts. It explains the site’s open land vegetation has been shaped by “millennia of fire” – and that the recent exclusion of fire has led to declines in this habitat and the species that call it home. It goes on to explain that fire is being reintroduced to the site through controlled burns “to reinvigorate fire-adapted species.”

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Title: Native people did not use fire to shape New England’s landscape
Creators: Wyatt Oswald (Author) - Emerson College
David R Foster (Author)
Elizabeth Chilton (Author) - Washington State University, Office of the Provost
Publication Details: The Conversation
Academic Unit: Anthropology, Department of
Identifiers: 99900586060101842
Language: English
Resource Type: Magazine article