Ticks

[woodchip1]

Think towns should have controlled burns in over grown fields like they use too, it would get rid of invasive plants and TICKS!!

[taxid]

The Native Americans did a lot of controlled burns. They knew they had to manage the forests for optimum wild game abundance, game harvest, and perhaps tick control? Old growth dense forest is not the optimum forest for wild game abundance.

Back in the midwest where we have lots of open habitat interspersed with woodland the deer are crazy abundant!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_use_of_fire_in_ecosystems

[taxid]

Sure enough this is what I found in the above link o one of the benefits regarding intentional fires set by the Native Americans.

Decreasing tick and biting insect populations by destroying overwintering instars and eggs.