Periodic wildfires are part of the lifecycle of many kinds of forests. Not every forest is a rainforest - most in North America are not, so they have different

Periodic wildfires are part of the lifecycle of many kinds of forests. Not every forest is a rainforest - most in North America are not, so they have different behaviors. Also, you are simply wrong that taiga rarely burns [0] - it burns quite often, and it is a normal part of the ecosystem. There is a whole field of study called fire ecology that investigates this. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiga#Fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiga#Fire