Also known as swidden cultivation or shifting cultivation, slash-and-burn agriculture is a primitive agricultural system in which sections of forest are repeatedly cleared, cultivated, and allowed to regenerate over a period of many years. This kind...

A technique of land clearance or DEFORESTATION in which the vegetation is cut down and burnt IN SITU, thereby returning nutrients such as potash to the soil to enable farming to take place. This fertility in the soil does not usually last beyond a few...

Slash and burn refers to the cutting and burning of forests or woodlands to create fields for agriculture or pasture for livestock, or for a variety of other purposes. It is sometimes part of shifting cultivation agriculture, and of transhumance...

FASHION AND FICTION : DRESS IN ART AND LITERATURE IN STUART ENGLAND by Aileen Ribero Yale, £40, pp.352, ISBN 0300109997 'A ship is sooner rigged by far, than a gentleman made ready, ' scoffed Thomas Tomkis in 1607, about how long men took...

Original editor's note: Slash burning after clearcutting in the Douglas-fir region has been previously discussed in pamphlets published by the Oregon State Board of Forestry, Washington Forest Fire Association, West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Western Forestry and Conservation Association, and the United States Forest Service...

There's a new chirp in the forest but it may be choked by the slashing and burning of trees by coca farmers, researchers said.The Gorgeted Puffleg, a rare hummingbird that boasts a plumage of violet blue and iridescent green on its throat, has been discovered...

GOP chaos seems to be extending down to the undercard gubernatorial scrap between John Faso and Randy Daniels. An email went out Friday from an anonymous "Randy Watch" account under the heading "Let's set the record straight" to various Republican leaders, responding to what it...