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Interesting fact: Aboriginal people living in North America before first contact with Europeans used to perform periodic controlled blazes on the land. Motivati
by yeowMeng 10y ago
Interesting fact: Aboriginal people living in North America before first contact with Europeans used to perform periodic controlled blazes on the land. Motivations including making the land easier for hunting and preventing uncontrollable fires from gaining strength.
Now, the land grows thick until fire comes to clean according to natures' idea of natural process.
I tree planted in BC/Alberta, the land grows so thick that they often have to fly you in helicopter to re-plant land that previous tree planters failed to plant correctly.
- snowwindwaves 10y agoIt only grows that thick after it has been clear cut. Old growth forests have a high canopy that starves thick underbrush for light. Humans clear cutting are part of the problem. When there is a forest fire in old growth the brush might burn but the big old trees will survive several fires.
- sandworm101 10y agoThe north is different. The trees are not the giant cedars of the pacific coastal rain forest. There often isn't anything to call a canopy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boreal_forest_of_Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boreal_forest_of_Canada
- snowwindwaves 10y agoah ok. I've only been up north once around terrace and bell 2 which is still kind of coastal compared to fort Mac
- noarchy 10y agoCanadian here. I'm often amazed at how tall the trees are, when I've visited the southern US. I'm not even that far north (I'm near Ottawa), but the differences are still quite obvious to me.
- snowwindwaves 10y agothe ottawa valley has been completely logged as well. 100ft tall white pines used to cover the area
- yeowMeng 10y agoThis is true. But Aboriginal's did execute controlled burns for reasons XYZ. One reason for controlled burns was to create a funnel in a thick new growth area in order to funnel the herding animals for hunting purposes. These controlled burns had successs in diminishing the risk of wild unstoppable fires.