Cultural burning
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Cultural burning is the process of using prescribed burns to manage landscapes, a process used primarily by the first peoples. More specifically the Indigenous people of Australia and the Western parts of North America[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] have been found to use this method extensively. This practice created a relationship between the land and the people so strong that the local flora became dependent on patterned burnings. The practice then elevated the Indigenous peoples of their respected environments to a keystone species status as the interspecies connections strengthened over time.[8][7] Which is partially why Indigenous people still manage 40-60% of all ecological reserves.
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Besides the ecological function there is also the cultural aspect. Species most adapted to the burns are also ones most used by the Indigenous peoples, such as California Black Oak.[2] Lands historically occupied by Indigenous peoples have become attuned to this process of low frequent burns, but all environment are not adjusted to this management.[7]