Which of the following is true regarding the practice of setting well-regulated fires in forests?
A) This practice was important to primitive peoples in managing their game yields.
B) This practice may have been important to the formation of grasslands worldwide.
C) This practice is called fire ecology.
D) This practice has been used by the U.S. Forest Service since the 1940s.
E) All of these are true.

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A) This is true, as many indigenous cultures used controlled burns to shape their environment for hunting and foraging purposes.
B) This is also true, as some researchers believe that early humans also used controlled burns to create grasslands, which in turn led to the evolution of certain large herbivores that humans hunted.
C) This is true, as fire ecology is the study of the role of fire in ecosystems, including the use of controlled burns to prevent larger, uncontrolled fires.
D) This is also true, as the U.S. Forest Service has been using controlled burns as a forest management tool since the 1940s.

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