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Originally Posted by armymom1228
some of the fires going now were with land that had not seen fires in like 30 yrs.. is that correct. How sad to lose such growth. It seems to be common in that part of the world though. Or are these kinds of fires a recent phenomenon, as in the past say 30 yrs.. or do they go back in history much further? Yet another reason to not live out there.  |
My understanding is that fire is part of the natural cycle. Clears out the undergrowth and puts a lot of nitrogen back into the soil, or something like that. They do intentional controlled burns for a reason.
If I'm correctly remembering a late 90s conversation with a Yosemite park ranger, a lot of the current wildfires are so bad because we squelched the natural fires for decades, letting the fuel accumulate. But the Pelosi and Boxer voters need to keep their homes near nature intact.
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