Yes. Fire shaped the plant and animal communities that we see present on the landscape. The important factor is scale, both temporal (time) and spatial (size). Managers should attempt to mimic historic scale of fire to meet the needs of all native species. Even in areas that require very infrequent fire (e.g. 200 years) fire is still important to these systems.
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