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Re:Wildfires in Big Basin Redwoods State Park by stickfigure on Thursday August 20, 2020 @11:58PM (#24231834)
All that is true, but we humans also tend to cause fires more frequently too? I live in a fire zone (I'm writing this from a hotel room that I've been forcibly evacuated to) and while Lightning gets the blame this time (I'm sure PG&E execs are quietly sighing relief), it doesn't seem to be the cause most times.

I wonder what the quantifiable overall effect is.

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Re:Wildfires in Big Basin Redwoods State Park by wyattpeak on Friday August 21, 2020 @03:54AM (#24232978)
I think it is qualifiable if not quantifiable in that brush is building up. Perhaps more fires are starting, but the net effect would have to be less frequent burns of a given area for brush to build up there.
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