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We also logged everything, and then re-planted with the most profitable trees assuming we'd log it all again. Who knew that densely planted tall pine trees bur

• brianwawok 5y ago
  Is this actually the case where the fires are happening? It's all man planted? Much of north america is naturally "a sea of pine trees". It would have been like this in 1700.
  • h2odragon 5y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatwood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatwood > In the United States the pine tree, Pinus palustris, known as the longleaf pine, once covered as much as 90,000,000 acres (360,000 km2) but due to clear cutting was reduced by between 95% and 97%. The trees grow very large (up to 150 feet), taking 100 to 150 years to mature and can live up to 500 years. The wood was prized and cutting resulted in many hundreds of thousands of stumps that are very resinous, do not rot, and eventually become fatwood. This ushered in a new industry for many years. Some of these trees burn like firebombs, they probably find it useful too. As a species. The individual tree, maybe, but if so far more briefly.
• Wohlf 5y ago
  This is not true in the majority of the Americas, especially the West Coast.