Settlers used fire to collect wild foods, for hunting, to clear farmland, to produce "forage for wild game and grazing animals" and to "support their aesthetic preferences" as well as to "entertain themselves" (FE). The name of Gifford Pinchot is well-known in fire science history; Pinchot, who founded the Forest Service, launched the "fire suppression movement" in the late 1890s (Fowler, 1999)
In fact, prescribed burning was "banned on many public lands in the South" for over 50 years. It wasn't until the 1960s that the Forest Service began "moving into fuel management" (Gorte, 1995)
S. History "Life creates oxygen, life creates combustibles, and life, through the agency of humanity, overwhelmingly creates the sparks of ignition" (Pyne, 2007)
Other sources that are helpful and accurate will be used as well. Williams writes that by the time the Europeans arrived on the North American continent, including fur traders, explorers and settlers seeking religious freedom from the oppressive Church of England, "millions of acres of 'natural' landscapes or 'wilderness' were already manipulated and maintained for human use" (Williams p
Other sources that are helpful and accurate will be used as well. Williams writes that by the time the Europeans arrived on the North American continent, including fur traders, explorers and settlers seeking religious freedom from the oppressive Church of England, "millions of acres of 'natural' landscapes or 'wilderness' were already manipulated and maintained for human use" (Williams p