The use of the fire: use and impact in the forest resources

Abstract

The history of almost all the cultures, it registers the use of the so much fire in their positive effects as negative. In the bibliographical search, of more than 100 pages organized in two sessions: use of the fire and forest fires, the work of analysis of the elements is synthesized that bear to the use of the fire like work tool. It highlights like half of forest ordination, control of plagues and illnesses, of not wanted vegetation and tool to prepare the earth; also as a arms effective in the wars. On the other hand the forest fires, defined as the fire without control, they are cause of habitat destruction, of biological diversity, atmospheric contamination and loss of economic resources in general.