One of these flaws is that we fail to recognize the fact that Indians roamed the Americas long before Europeans arrived. Europeans believed that all of America was untouched by man, thus making it a wilderness area. But they failed to understand that those lands had already been used for living, farming, hunting and gathering. The Indians even used fire to manage their lands. Many believe that the use of fire has even shaped our landscape today, making our forests rich and diverse. If it weren't for their fires, America would most likely have been overrun with brush. So when President Obama declared 2 million acres of land “wilderness” in 2009, he did so for land shaped by human hands. There to discredit it from being land unbound by man, the very definition of