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  • From: tom <tom@honeychrome.com>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Tending the Wild, Wood Ash
  • Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:35:00 -0500

<<Because California indigenous people burned regularly, the fires weren't extremely hot or big compared to wild fires. Apparently the flames were about two feet high. How this compares to a propose contraption, I have no idea. Somehow I can't quite get behind the idea of using such a device on the land.>>

In Changes to the Land, Cronan notes that there were instances where the native american's burning or the forest undergrowth would get out of control and do serious damage..




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