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Controlled forest fires aka "controlled burns" are man made fires that are lit when a forest or area becomes overrun with either too much dead debris or begins to grow out of control of man, and possibly impedes whatever humans have going on in the area, or to make the fire happen on human terms where we can deal with it, and not endanger anyone

EX. a controlled burn out in the Midwest or southeast to clear brush/debris allowing a new generation of pine trees to grow in place of all the old and dying ones.

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