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guess the downvotes are from folks that dont understand how forests work? :)
by mtnGoat 5y ago
guess the downvotes are from folks that dont understand how forests work? :)
- user-the-name 5y agoMost forests do not burn.
- elihu 5y agoOver what timescale? Forest fires were a regular occurrence in North America before fire suppression was the standard policy. Now it looks like they're happening quite a bit despite that policy.
- user-the-name 5y agoPretty long time spans. There are a lot of forests where fires are not part of the life cycle.
- cmrdporcupine 5y agoLarge scale forest fires have never been a large part of the lifecycle of the moist northeast. That might change, but around the great lakes region at least our forest type is entirely different than the western half of the continent. Rain is fairly consistent here. The first nations did practice controlled burns for the sake of wildlife management (to increase open grazing land) for sure, and smaller scale forest fires did/do happen. But nothing like out west.
- mtnGoat 5y agoAgreed. The eastern forests don’t burn like the western ones do. I guess my original posts were more aimed at the western coniferous forests, which is what this is related to.
- nick__m 5y agoIs this northeast enough: https://vocm.com/2021/08/10/forest-fire-burning-east-of-churchill-falls-near-trans-labrador-highway/ https://vocm.com/2021/08/10/forest-fire-burning-east-of-chur... ? Forest fire are sufficiently cyclical that some trees, like the pitch pine, depends on them for the seeds to open.
- cmrdporcupine 5y agoThat's an entirely different biome, boreal/northern conifer forest on the Canadian shield. What does that have to do with the great lakes and atlantic northeast? Forest here is composed of oak beech maple and some white pine and rainfall is consistent.
- themaninthedark 5y agoOver the course of time, most forests do burn. Recently, there was a story about how when we keep the forests from burning we are causing major issues.
- user-the-name 5y agoSome. Not most.
- rahimiali 5y agoforests go in cycles. averaged over time, any given acre of forest contains some carbon.