Let’s See How Smoky it is Near You

Mike Pierson said:
My dad has told me that, in at least California, the Native Americans would set fires in the forest. Because there wasn’t dozens of years of wind fall and slash lying all over, the fires would rush through snd clean the understory and never harm the trees since the fires weren’t that hot. Don’t know if it’s true or how they knew how to do that; haven’t researched it.
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It’s normal practice in red states. People burn pastures and forests all the time clean the underbrush and make better habitats for wildlife.
 
NPC 6060⁸42 said:
Mismanagement by the forest service is a big part of the problem. Bob somehow makes sense here a series of smaller fires would have been preferable to the large uncontrolled fires you’re seeing now.
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The huge fires on the north rim of the Grand Canyon 1/5 of forested area burned already) have given the forestry department the heebie-jeebies. The fire which burned the Grand Canyon Lodge was being used like a controlled burn.
 
Mike Pierson said:
My dad has told me that, in at least California, the Native Americans would set fires in the forest. Because there wasn’t dozens of years of wind fall and slash lying all over, the fires would rush through snd clean the understory and never harm the trees since the fires weren’t that hot. Don’t know if it’s true or how they knew how to do that; haven’t researched it.
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I have heard the same. Since I am now old, I can see that the forests are not like when I was young. When I was young, you could just walk through most of the forest, but now it is often impenetrable brush, or young trees so close together you can almost not stick your arm between them.

To me this problem is even worse than the SxS tearing things up.
 
bobfriesenhahn said:
I have heard the same. Since I am now old, I can see that the forests are not like when I was young. When I was young, you could just walk through most of the forest, but now it is often impenetrable brush, or young trees so close together you can almost not stick your arm between them.

To me this problem is even worse than the SxS tearing things up.
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I agree about the forest…
 
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