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| Fire and the Prairie | |||||||||||||||||
| The Impacts of Land Clearing and Fire Suppression | |||||||||||||||||
| Ontario's prairies and
savannas were some of the first lands to be used for agriculture by
European settlers because of the lack of trees and good soil fertility.
By the 20th century, most of
the grasslands in southern Ontario were converted to farmland or covered
by towns and cities. In addition, fire ceased to be a normal occurrence
on the landscape either through the fragmentation of the land that
prevented fire from sweeping through the fire-dependent
habitat or direct suppression of fire by humans for safety reasons.
Without fire, many of the tallgrass prairies and savannas that were not converted to other uses eventually changed to shrub thicket and dense forests of oak, ash, maple and elm. Fire is needed to restore and maintain most of these rare communities.
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