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Don't the cones need fire to open and disperse the seeds? I thought this is how that biome works, no matter how many pretty houses you build in it, it's still a

• pvaldes 5y ago
  > Seeds need fire If this what people are afraid of; We, humans, could do the same without losing 1000 years of wood and killing a few bombers in the process. Scorching a pinecone is easily repeatable in a lab, and then you can care for the saplings for two or five years until you can plant it in nature. End of the problem. Most will survive exactly when we want them to be. Keep the rest of your millions and use it for something more useful than rebuild entire cities each four years. There is not need to burn the forest for that or to convert arsonists or criminals into heroes claiming that 'nobody thinks in the saplings!'. Now all that we need is to stop making excuses to start hunting seriously the criminals and put them in jail. Period.
• wolverine876 5y ago
  The article addresses it. This fire killed the trees, overcoming their adaptation to fire.