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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Other than the forest fire prevention that native Americans used to perform, I would agree.

[–] Bazoogle 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Even this can have negative impacts. More frequent, smaller forest fires allows for the "fuel" to be burned off in small quantities. If you go too long without the fuel being used, it builds up, until you get a very large forest fire. Which happened a few weeks ago (sparked by the other right conditions, of course)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You just described the cultural burning practices that were in place for thousands of years though.

[–] Bazoogle 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Right, which I would say is not forest fire prevention, since they are starting forest fires. It's more so forest fire mitigation. Perhaps that's getting into semantics, but I thought it was a necessary clarification.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Thank you, no that makes total sense

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