Agropastoral practices that historically reduced the flammability of Mediterranean landscapes are poorly understood due to state prohibitions and lack of scientific interest. Oral histories, analysis of agronomical writings, transect walks, and ethnographic study of fire managers and community members in the Monte Pisano of Italy, find legacies of traditional agropastoral practices in present-day landscapes. Forest leaf litter raking, largely carried out by women, combined with fire wood cutting and burning to greatly reduce fire risk. Historic stigmatization of traditional burning and ignoring gendered peasant labor have reduced contemporary scientists’ and fire managers’ understandings of ecological processes and of options for reducing fire risk. Fire managers in the Mediterranean, and in areas around the world affected by rural depopulation, would benefit from a better understanding of traditional agropastoral and fire management practices. Litter raking has been understudied outside Central Europe, is often gendered, and may have important ecological consequences around the world.

由于国家禁令和缺乏科学兴趣，历史上降低地中海景观易燃性的农牧业实践人们知之甚少。对意大利皮萨诺山火灾管理人员和社区成员的口述历史、农艺著作分析、横断面行走以及人种学研究，在当今景观中发现了传统农牧业实践的遗产。森林落叶收集主要由妇女进行，结合柴火砍伐和燃烧，大大降低了火灾风险。传统焚烧的历史污名和忽视性别农民工已经降低了当代科学家和消防管理者对生态过程和减少火灾风险选择的理解。地中海地区以及世界各地受农村人口减少影响的地区的火灾管理人员将受益于更好地了解传统农牧业和火灾管理做法。垃圾耙在中欧以外地区尚未得到充分研究，通常具有性别差异，并且可能在世界各地产生重要的生态后果。