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controlled burns are fascinating, especially considering how rooted (hehe) in indigenous culture they are. do you have any formulas for deciding when and how to

• gdubs 3y ago
  There's designated months of the year when burns are allowed, but something like a forestry controlled burn is the kind of thing that would be done in collaboration with local forest service / fire departments / etc. Smaller burns are more at the discretion of the landowner, and things like agricultural burns are pretty common during the wet months in the Pacific Northwest. People build piles, let them dry out, and wait until a designated burn day. We haven't done anything on the scale of letting a whole field or forest floor burn deliberately – far too much liability and overhead. If you could get it to a state where it could be done regularly, I think it'd be ideal. But, as things are now, there's just too much that can go wrong, and so that's a big part of the situation we're all in now.