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“Leaping on every fire and putting it out immediately is the practice that helped create the problem in the first place.” “Coupled with sediment studies, they show that big fires have been a constant presence on the landscape for at least 11,000 years”
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I’m sympathetic to the terrible plight of the folks on the west coast. I hope a strong resolve emerges to perform the necessary controlled burns and fire break clearings to have the biggest & most immediate preventative impact.
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I’d be interested to see a map of the burned areas that makes it easy to distinguish areas that have burned multiple times since 2000 vs only once, but this is still interesting:
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