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Bruce MacDonald
@rationaldoge@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

“In northern Wisconsin and the surrounding area, when we were intentionally using fire on the landscape, that resulted in so many blueberries” that a railway was named for them, Montano said. The “Blueberry Line” was a branch line that served counties in northern Wisconsin. Legend has it that the trains would stop along the route so passengers could pick blueberries.
https://www.wpr.org/news/prescribed-burn-superior-return-ishkode-good-fire

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Prescribed burn in Superior marks return of  ‘ishkode,’ or ‘good fire’

Evan Larson, a fire ecologist at UW-Platteville, says the spark has been ignited for a return to cultural prescribed burns. This centuries-old Indigenous practice once helped red pine and blueberries flourish along Lake Superior.
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