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My point above is that because of fire suppression, California's forests have grown denser than the long-term, sustainable average. California's forests were mu
by joe_the_user 5y ago
My point above is that because of fire suppression, California's forests have grown denser than the long-term, sustainable average. California's forests were much less dense in the 1880s because fires were quite common - it is a "fire shaped landscape", the ecology evolved with fire.
If someone is attempting to make things even more dense, they simply will stoke fuel for more fire.
- phire 5y agoYeah. The accounting can become even more of an absolute nightmare if you actually have to start planning that far ahead and taking into account the long-term sustainable average of converting land to forest, instead of the short-term best case.