Controlled burns can prevent wildfires; regulations make them nearly impossible
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Re: Controlled burns can prevent wildfires; regulations make them nearly impossible
#2Many plants also need fires to repopulate. Its a huge issue.
Re: Controlled burns can prevent wildfires; regulations make them nearly impossible
#3Way back in the 90's in college I took some elective class (I forget the topic) and the prof had a lecture on how controlled burns prevent wildfires. He also said that govt policy was already limiting controlled burns even then and he predicted that in 20 years, unless the policies changed, that we'd be having giant wildfires and here we are.
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#4Many plants also need fires to repopulate. Its a huge issue.
Pine barrens, and specifically the short leaf pine.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/features/shortleaf-pine-future-requi...
And if you're into delicious mushrooms, Morels.
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#5Goats emit less co2 than “controlled burns”, and mixed species mature forests don’t have the undergrowth problem commercial cutting cycles entail
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#7Goats emit less co2 than “controlled burns”, and mixed species mature forests don’t have the undergrowth problem commercial cutting cycles entail
Forests in the US especially on the west coast evolved alongside fire, and burning is how many species propagate in these ecosystems.
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#8Goats emit less co2 than “controlled burns”, and mixed species mature forests don’t have the undergrowth problem commercial cutting cycles entail
Let me know when you have a goat that will eat thousands of pounds of fallen trees.
No offense, but it's fairly clear you have never stepped in the forests that this is a problem. It's not yearly grass. It's 50 years of buildup. You make a 12ft high and 30ft wide pile of this stuff then please tell me about goats.
From experience, had a bone fire that lasted three days before it was out.... Goats...
Along the same lines, you have an excellent wolf feeding solution, now to find the problem it solves!
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Well I wouldn't go that far to call it disgusting, since the vast majority of human actions probably result in unintended, mostly negative, consequences.