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Whats the argument for managing these forests in such a hands on way? For the health of the forest or to make it easier to live in them? The talk that fires a
by jayd16 6y ago
Whats the argument for managing these forests in such a hands on way? For the health of the forest or to make it easier to live in them?
The talk that fires are a natural part of a forest and that we should also do prescribed burns seems at odds.
- almost_usual 6y agoThe reality is we forced nature to _not_ burn for far too long and now it’s exploding when it happens. You could argue this is a “flattening the curve” approach to wildfires. https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_hessburg_why_wildfires_have_gotten_worse_and_what_we_can_do_about_it/ https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_hessburg_why_wildfires_have_g...
- bigbubba 6y agoDecades of putting out naturally occurring fires has already precluded a 'hands off all natural' approach.
- tialaramex 6y agoActual Old Growth Forest is very cool, but it's totally unsuitable anywhere near humans. It will sometimes burn spectacularly for various reasons, which would be devastating locally, and so if there are humans they'll try to stop it doing that because they don't want to die or have their homes destroyed. So - we're not talking about Old Growth Forest, these are managed forests, humans are already messing with them, the only question is what management strategies to use. "Let's just not manage the forest" is not an option unless you are going to evacuate essentially all the humans from the region. Like, if the only human for 100km is a government official surveying the forest or something, that doesn't need managing. If there's a town there, you have no choice, you're managing that forest now, like it or not.