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If you watch planet earth, or other nature programs, you will find out that a forest fire is part of the natural forest life cycle. Some seeds, like pine code s
by dukeofdoom 6y ago
If you watch planet earth, or other nature programs, you will find out that a forest fire is part of the natural forest life cycle. Some seeds, like pine code seeds, grasses, and so on, will only generate after a fire. Then there is succession of plants that grow out. Nature has this figured out. And the forest benefits from fires. Fire kills off parasites, and diseased trees. The new forest will be healthier.
I understand preventing fires around human habitation. But it will probably be used to preserve the forest for logging too. Logging is not at all a natural process.
- coryrc 6y agoNot all forests, just ones in drier/hotter regions (Canada's boreal forests don't regularly burn, for example). The forests in the Western USA were purposefully burnt by the inhabitants for thousands of years prior to the ~1950s so I believe we don't know how much or if they relied on fire prior to man inhabiting the Americas.