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

  • Written by Wyatt Oswald, Professor of Environmental Science, Emerson College
Old-growth forests prevailed in New England for thousands of years.David Foster, CC BY-ND

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”...

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