s which is gradually destroying the forest. The poor are forced to abuse the forest merely to survive, while the wealthy greedily devour it for profit and to expand the land they own.
In the middle of the social structure are the smaller ranchers and the speculators who also add to the destruction of the forest. The title of the book refers to the act of deliberately burning parcels of the forest in order to clear it for exploitat
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