The City of Toronto will be engaging in prescribed burns, an intentional preservation method, to protect the rare black oak savannah ecosystem within the park.
Forestry technicians conduct a controlled burn in High Park on April 29, 2022. The City of Toronto will be engaging in prescribed burns at the park Thursday to protect the rare black oak savannah ecosystem.
The method goes back to before colonization. Indigenous people who tended to the land used prescribed burns as a management tool for fire-dependent environments."It's always been a practice of my people to keep the land clean. In the old days, it was a way of rejuvenating new growth," said Henry Pitawanakwat, an Indigenous elder who identifies as being with the Three Fires Confederacy from Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory.
But what is the history of prescribed burns and how does the method work? Here's what you need to know about Thursday's fires.According to the city, a prescribed burn "is a deliberately set and carefully controlled fire that burns low to the ground and consumes dried leaves, small twigs and grass stems, but does not harm larger trees."
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