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Aren't quite a lot/all ecosystems already capable of recovering from fire?

• verisimi 4y ago
  > Many ecosystems evolved to live with wildfire, but the Sonoran Desert is not one of them. Saguaros have no defense against fire, and no ability to rebound from fire damage.
• Gordonjcp 4y ago
  Moorland such as you get in Scotland, where people want to "rewild" it by planting massive amounts of non-native trees to claim giant tax breaks, do just fine getting set on fire every so often. Left wild you end up with heather growing over a metre deep in some places, and then a thunderstorm at just the right wrong time will set it all off, and then you've got thousands of acres of burning oily woody stuff that you simply cannot extinguish. But hey let's just bang on about "greedy farmers burning away all the wildlife for grouse moors". Pretty sure I'd have seen at least one grouse shoot in 40-odd years of living in the area.