Re:California will begin backing intentional burns to contro...
by the8472 on Friday June 23, 2023 @01:06PM
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Well technically, controlled burns aren't natural either.
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Re:California will begin backing intentional burns to contro...
by ch4s3 on Friday June 23, 2023 @02:09PM
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Right, but people were engaged in burning since the glaciers retreated. So there's no possible pre-burning ecology to return to since the glaciers are LONG gone and the mega-fauna all died. So we can have either unpredictable, large-scale burns or we can have predictable controlled burns that the ecosystem had adapted to for the better part of 15k years.