Meh. I live in forested area and the people who tend to freak out about the trees are people not from here. Trees need to be cleared, simply as a fire hazard. A great number of the trees only exist because of improper forest management, like putting out every fire.
The existence of old growth seems to contradict your idea that unmanaged forests burn down. They burn alright, but that's part of the ecosystem.
Forestry schools are full of chuds, so you gotta take them talking about management with a massive grain of salt.
You're right that the primary cause of the severity of forest fires in the last 20 years after climate change was that we spent a century over-fighting them, but a close second is all the clear-cutting and terracing done in the 80s. Fuel overgrowth is wayyyyyy down the list, and the timber industry has just latched on to the talking point as a way to get western libs to buy into more logging (including old growth, which absolutely does not need to be "managed" except for keeping the chuds from fucking it up).
Absolutely. There's a bunch of ecology books about first nations and indigenous use of fire and how they used it to shape turtle island before the settlers arrived. Its pretty cool.
Meh. I live in forested area and the people who tend to freak out about the trees are people not from here. Trees need to be cleared, simply as a fire hazard. A great number of the trees only exist because of improper forest management, like putting out every fire.
That's a logging industry chud talking point.
What is? This is my observation. If you dont manage the forest it will burn down.
The existence of old growth seems to contradict your idea that unmanaged forests burn down. They burn alright, but that's part of the ecosystem.
Forestry schools are full of chuds, so you gotta take them talking about management with a massive grain of salt.
You're right that the primary cause of the severity of forest fires in the last 20 years after climate change was that we spent a century over-fighting them, but a close second is all the clear-cutting and terracing done in the 80s. Fuel overgrowth is wayyyyyy down the list, and the timber industry has just latched on to the talking point as a way to get western libs to buy into more logging (including old growth, which absolutely does not need to be "managed" except for keeping the chuds from fucking it up).
There's an obvious difference between taking wood from heavily forested areas that are fire hazards, and removing the forest
Of course there is but there has to be a happy medium.
I'd rather controlled burns than uncontrolled forest fires tbh.
Controlled burns good, allowing the "selective trimming" of national forests bad.
Absolutely. There's a bunch of ecology books about first nations and indigenous use of fire and how they used it to shape turtle island before the settlers arrived. Its pretty cool.