Sentence examples for indigenous fire from inspiring English sources
Traill said Indigenous fire management ensure small areas of land were burned through, allowing for some species to thrive and even co-evolve with land practices.
In fact, non-native species present a major challenge in restoring indigenous fire regimes to riparian ecosystems (see Pfeiffer and Voeks 2008; Pfeiffer and Ortiz 2007).
Re-establishment of indigenous fire management is part of the valuable adaptive knowledge for promoting the establishment of fire-adapted species, maintaining open landscapes, and controlling invasive agronomic grasses and other fire-intolerant invasive species.
These changes would have contributed to the accumulations of dry-season fuel, making the whole system much more subject to hot dry-season fires - as observed wherever indigenous fire management has been curtailed around the world (West African savanna states, USA, Australia).
Much remains to be studied regarding indigenous fires in riparian ecosystems.
If the goal is to restore native plant dominance within an ecosystem with fire, then perhaps the short-term remedy may involve burning at times that are not typical for indigenous fires.
Suppression of indigenous prescribed fires on Tl'chés has had a major effect on the structure, function and composition of coastal bluffs, meadows and woodland ecosystems.
"It is working," said Dean Yibarbuk, a senior Indigenous ranger and fire ecologist for the Warddeken Aboriginal Corporation.
Gammage noted five stages of the indigenous use of fire – first was to control wildfire fuel; second, to maintain diversity; third, to balance species; fourth, to ensure abundance; and five, to locate resources conveniently and predictably.
Police spokesman Col Frederico Caldas said his men had tried to negotiate a peaceful eviction but decided to move in after the indigenous group set fire to the former museum.
Why should the ordinary American give any thought to a red fire ant indigenous to Brazil and Argentina? A. Because they are here.
