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Panamanians have use the word "limpiar" --- to clean --- when talking about clearing land of its vegetation. It is often done in destructive ways. Slash-and-burn agriculture, for example, works reasonably well in a forest with a sparse population, because after an area has been farmed for a little while it can be abandoned for the next patch and left for the jungle to reclaim. Increase the population enough and add invasive weeds that prevent the trees from coming back and it's another story, which is why pre-Columbian agricultural techniques are so destructive when used in today's setting. Another dubious method of "cleaning" the land is shown here: this unwanted mango tree has been poisoned, so as to be more easily cut or burned down when the whole tree is dead. Photo by Eric Jackson

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