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Are fire and grazing related?

Last Updated: April 30, 2010

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Yes. Grazing animals preferentially forage on recently burned areas due to increased palatability. This reduces the fuel for that site and thus reduces the likelihood of a subsequent fire. This concentration of grazing on burned areas allows adjacent unburned areas to build up fuel which increases the probability of fire. The result is an ever changing mosaic of burned and unburned patches with grazing animals rotating themselves across the land.

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