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sometimes they are a good thing. we actually set prescibed burns. but theyre bad thing when the fuels are dry and the loading is heavy. having it not burn for 40+ years will make it burn to a parking lot. which then will more than likely change the fuel type. so if it were a timber fuel model and a fire totally nuked it. it'll take decades for maybe a some trees to grow back. and thats if the FS goes in there, plants trees and theres no significant erosion (rain). just sayin its important especially this year.
these forests in CA are EXTREMELY dry. we're getting fires everyday because of lightning. no need to have a human caused one! thanks!
And this is why I say natural fires are a good thing! It removes waste on the forest floor!!!!!!! Adds nutrients to the soil and some trees need fire to open their seeds.
The problem, I think, is the makeup of the forests now. 100+ years ago, fires did burn "naturally", but the forests were not as choked with fuels and trees as they are now. Natural fires would burn through every 15-35 years, large trees would survive and the brush/fuels were burned up and regeneration would take place. Forests now burn with catastrophic results, in some places literally cooking the soil and burning up nutrients. Fire suppression in the Sierra Nevada has contributed to this in alot of ways. Forests are overloaded with fuel and small trees and burn way too hot, large trees perish, everything...leaving a wasteland for many years.
Well if its free it aint as bad as I had thought. But its still the principle of the fact that you have to have a permit for a simple campfire.
some fire ring... next to grass
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